How to install GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3
How to install GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3
The GScan2PDF is a cross platform GUI application to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. It can scan one or several pages in with File/Scan option and can also create PDF of selected pages with File/Save options. This tutorial will explain on how to install GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3.
Installation procedure
To start the installation process, execute the nano command to open the sources.list file.
root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
The sources.list file opens. Now add these lines at end of the file. Save and exit from the file.
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Next execute the apt-get update command to update the apt sources-list file.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,900 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-04-15-2027.16.pdiff [528 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB]
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 6min 45s (57.7 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now install the GScan2PDF package by executing the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install gscan2pdf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
curl djvulibre-bin libconfig-general-perl libcurl3 libdevel-globaldestruction-perl
libdist-checkconflicts-perl libemail-date-format-perl libextutils-depends-perl
libextutils-pkgconfig-perl libfont-ttf-perl libgoo-canvas-perl libgoocanvas-common
libgoocanvas3 libgraphicsmagick++3 libgraphicsmagick3 libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl
libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl libgtk2-imageview-perl libgtkimageview0 libio-stringy-perl
libipc-shareable-perl liblept4 liblist-moreutils-perl liblog-dispatch-perl
liblog-log4perl-perl libmail-sendmail-perl libmime-lite-perl libmime-types-perl
libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libopenjp2-7 libparams-classify-perl
libparams-validate-perl libpdf-api2-perl libproc-processtable-perl libreadonly-perl
libsane-perl libset-intspan-perl libsub-exporter-progressive-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl
libtesseract3 libtiff-tools libtry-tiny-perl pdf2djvu pkg-config sane tesseract-ocr
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Setting up unpaper (0.4.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...
Q
How to open the GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3 ?
A
After the installation of Gscan2PDF you can access the application from the application menu
Q
What is the command to install GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3 ?
A
The command to install GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3 is
apt-get install gscan2pdf
apt-get install gscan2pdf
Q
Why can gscan2pdf not find my scanner?
A
If your scanner is not connected directly to the machine on which you are running gscan2pdf and you have not installed the SANE daemon, saned, gscan2pdf cannot automatically find it. In this
Q
When I update gscan2pdf using the Update Manager in Ubuntu, why is the list of changes never displayed?
A
As far as I can tell, this is pulled from changelogs.ubuntu.com, and therefore only the changelogs from official Ubuntu builds are displayed.
Q
Why is option xyz ghosted outon GScan2PDF on Debian 8.3?
A
Probably because the package required for that option is not installed. Email as PDF requires xdg-email (xdg-utils), unpaper and the rotate options require imagemagick.