scanbm command not found

Introduction

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

scanbm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scanbm: command not found

Solutions to scanbm: command not found

How To Fix scanbm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scanbm is provided by scanbd package.

scanbd is:

It polls the scanner buttons looking for buttons pressed or function knob changes or other scanner events as paper inserts / removals and at the same time allows also scan-applications to access the scanners. If buttons are pressed, etc., various actions can be submitted (scan, copy, email, …) via action scripts. The function knob values are passed to the action-scripts as well.

Scan actions are also signaled via D-Bus. This can be useful for foreign applications. Scans can also be triggered via D-Bus from foreign applications.

On platforms which support signaling of dynamic device insertion / removal (libudev, D-Bus, hal) scanbd supports this as well. scanbd can use all sane-backends or some special backends from the (old) scanbuttond project.

This package is a successor of scanbuttond.

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

sudo apt-get -y install scanbd

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

You can also use apt command to install scanbd.

sudo apt -y install scanbd

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

sudo aptitude install scanbd

Summary

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