simple-scan command not found

Introduction

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

simple-scan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simple-scan: command not found

Solutions to simple-scan: command not found

How To Fix simple-scan: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu simple-scan is provided by simple-scan package.

simple-scan is:

Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.

Simple Scan is basically a frontend for SANE - which is the same backend as XSANE uses. This means that all existing scanners will work and the interface is well tested.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simple-scan

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

You can also use apt command to install simple-scan.

sudo apt -y install simple-scan

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

sudo aptitude install simple-scan

Summary

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