Canon Canoscan LiDE25 on GNU/Linux

This document is under construction. Last Updated: May 22, 2006

My System Setup

Slackware 10.2 (Linux 2.6.16.11)
Sane 1.0.17 (From source)
Xsane 0.991 (From Linuxpackages.net)
Canon Canoscan LiDE25 (USB Scanner)

Installation

First of all, SANE 1.0.17 is needed for this scanner. We will roll our own from source on Slackware 10.2 (make sure you remove the old version first with removepkg sane). This is the configure line I used, to install SANE where Slackware prefers it.

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

The Canoscan LiDE25 uses the sane-plustek backend. As of May 20, 2006, all necessary features for day to day operations are supported. After you configure, make and make install; you'll want to copy the hotplug scripts from the source folder in tools/hotplug to /etc/hotplug/usb/ and create the "scanner" group if it doesn't exist already and then add your user (which non-root user you use your system with) to the scanner group.

My First Test Scan (Beautiful Aussie Princess)

Some Links