Comment 52 for bug 1707352

The ugly workaround from Hans Schwimmbeck works for me with the Epson 4490 scanner (iscan gtx 750 bundle). During install I was required to allow the uninstall of the colord package, which I did, reinstalling it soon after; strangely the removal of colord didn't remove gnome related stuff as experienced in previous attempts to play with the zesty libsane (?!?!?). Other than issuing the hold command in the terminal I've also had to pin the relevant packages within synaptic, or else the software updater would try to upgrade libsane to libsane1 (?!?!? again). This so called ugly workaround is the most elegant solution available at the moment IMHO, thank You for sharing Hans; my workaround (post #16) was preventing the upgrade of many packages, while this supposedly ugly fix doesn't.