First, thank you, [member=5916]trinidad[/member] for the sugestion and advice. You are one of the most helpful members here.
It's been a few days since I posted my query, but pre-winter home and vehicle maintenance had to take priority.
If I can figure out how, I will mark this thread as "Abandoned," since that's what, in effect, I have done. Although I was aware of them, I had never before encountered a tarball file, which is what I received for the installation. Turned out that there was a familiar .deb file within the tar.gz file. When I attempted to install that program, it did an incomplete installation, which I deleeted, since it wouldn't accomplish anything good for me.
After some online research, I ended up using good old Synaptic to intall Xsane, and that is what I am using for now.
It's been a few days since I posted my query, but pre-winter home and vehicle maintenance had to take priority.
If I can figure out how, I will mark this thread as "Abandoned," since that's what, in effect, I have done. Although I was aware of them, I had never before encountered a tarball file, which is what I received for the installation. Turned out that there was a familiar .deb file within the tar.gz file. When I attempted to install that program, it did an incomplete installation, which I deleeted, since it wouldn't accomplish anything good for me.
After some online research, I ended up using good old Synaptic to intall Xsane, and that is what I am using for now.