Note
This guide was prepared with the assistance of Antigravity + Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Legacy Epson Perfection scanners (such as Perfection V200 Photo / GT-F670, USB ID 04b8:012e) are marked as End-of-Support by Epson and use legacy iscan drivers.
On Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, attempting to install them causes several issues:
iscandepends on the deprecatedlibsanepackage (superseded bylibsane1).- Epson's bundled
install.shscript fails because it cannot resolveProvides:virtual dependencies (it tries to pulllibgtk2.0-0, while Ubuntu 24.04 useslibgtk2.0-0t64).