TBE Scanner – Linux Installation Instructions

On The Client Computer Running Linux:

• Make sure SANE is installed.
• Make sure “bash” interpreter is in /bin/bash ie. “which bash” Probably don’t need to worry about this one.
• Put the TBEscanner.psl file in the .PowerTerm-config-dir which is a hidden directory in the user’s home directory.
• Put the “TBEscanner.sh” bash file in /usr/bin and make it executable ie. “chmod +x TBEscanner.sh”
• Create a folder called pages in the users home directory and mount it to the samba share folder called PAGES. You can edit the /etc/fstab file to automatically mount in when they bootup so you don’t have to do it manually.

  Example : //192.168.50.192/PAGES /home/paul/pages cifs username=[uname],password=[pw] 0 0

• If using PowerTerm Interconnect for Linux then set Connect With PowerTerm to “Powerterm Interconnect (very rare)” in the user flags. Don’t need to do this anymore.
• Make sure “sed” is installed. TBEscanner.sh bash file uses this.
• Check if they have libtiff-tools. You can check for tiffcp. If not then use Synaptic Package Manager and do a search for libtiff and install libtiff-tools.
• Run scanimage -f %d on the command line to get the name of the device(s)
• Run scanimage –help –device-name [device name] and check that the TBEscanner.sh will work with the device specific paramaters.