Extracting drivers for scanner CanoScan Lide 25 from Arch installation

collector1871 · 2017-02-05 21:42:48

I have scanner CanoScan Lide 25.

This scanner is working excellent out of the box in the updated Linux Arch.
I need just install xsane:

pacman -Syu xsane

and after that everything is working 100% OK. No problems, no issues.

I want to extract all these drivers/files/config-files/permissions from my current Linux installation and pack these files to the tar/gzip/zip archive.

Which files should I copy for creating "portable Linux driver pack" (something like canoScan-lite-25-drivers.tar.gz) ?
I need this "portable package" for others linux distro and for personal backup.

Last edited by collector1871 (2017-02-05 21:43:43)

fdservices · 2017-02-09 15:40:35

If the scanner worked out of the box, then the "drivers" are built into the kernel.

A quick look at the Canon website for Linux support was not promisiong, so you may not be able to do exactly what you want.

Andrew

R00KIE · 2017-02-09 16:31:22

I would be more inclined to say that either it is sane (the program) that knows how to talk with those scanners or the scanner talks some kind of universal protocol that sane can use, that would mean no specific driver for you to isolate.

What makes me curious is why you would want to pack the files to a tar/gzip/zip archive when you can install what you need with pacman.

collector1871 · 2017-02-10 20:22:24

R00KIE wrote:

(...)
What makes me curious is why you would want to pack the files to a tar/gzip/zip archive when you can install what you need with pacman.

1. For other distributions (Debian, Raspbian)
2. For backup. I don`t trust any online repository. I`d like to keep everything locally on my hard drives and LAN

It is fun that drivers are "built", but I`d like to find a way to extract and pack it.

Any idea how to deal with this problem?

Last edited by collector1871 (2017-02-10 20:23:28)

Lone_Wolf · 2017-02-10 20:37:56

Check the SANE documentation .

The CanoScan LIDE 25 is supported by the sane-plustek backend.
If you want to check if an older sane version supports that scanner, check bottom of page

As Rookie mentioned. the driver is part of the SANE package, there's no need for an external driver.

R00KIE · 2017-02-11 13:06:12

collector1871 wrote:

1. For other distributions (Debian, Raspbian)

Use the respective package managers to get the sane package.

collector1871 wrote:

2. For backup. I don`t trust any online repository. I`d like to keep everything locally on my hard drives and LAN

For Arch you can look into backing up your pacman cache, or copy the packages from a mirror.

I'd say that cherry picking a few files to backup is not a good idea as using them with a newer or older sane version may not work or cause problems.

Arch Linux

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Extracting drivers for scanner CanoScan Lide 25 from Arch installation

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