sane-find-scanner command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

sane-find-scanner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sane-find-scanner: command not found

Solutions to sane-find-scanner: command not found

How To Fix sane-find-scanner: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sane-find-scanner is provided by sane-utils package.

sane-utils is:

SANE stands for “Scanner Access Now Easy” and is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE standard is free and its discussion and development are open to everybody. The current source code is written to support several operating systems, including GNU/Linux, OS/2, Win32 and various Unices and is available under the GNU General Public License (commercial applications and backends are welcome, too, however).

This package includes the command line frontend scanimage, the saned server and the sane-find-scanner utility, along with their documentation.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install sane-utils

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install sane-utils.

sudo apt -y install sane-utils

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install sane-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sane-find-scanner command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.