Installation

Debian

If you’re using a debian based distro then you can just use the installer script:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbs20/scanservjs/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v latest

If you wish to install a specific version then you can do so:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sbs20/scanservjs/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v v2.23.0

Since v3.0.0, the oneline install is actually just downloading a .deb file. You can do this yourself from the releases and then install it: sudo apt-get install ./scanservjs_3.0.0-1.deb

Note for users of v2.x

If you have v2.x of the application installed, then while you can just install v3.x over the top, it is strongly recommended to remove the old version completely first. The main reason is that it will let debian keep track of dependencies more effectively. Further, v2.x installs a version of npm which is not only non-standard but now outdated. Sorry about that.

There is no automation for this because it’s too invasive to do automatically and it’s a one-off process. Further, you may be using some of the packages that this script proposes removing.

# Stop and remove service
sudo systemctl stop scanservjs > /dev/null
sudo rm -vf /etc/systemd/system/scanservjs.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# backup scans to home directory
mkdir -p /tmp/scanservjs.bkp
sudo mv -v /var/www/scanservjs/data /tmp/scanservjs.bkp
sudo mv -v /var/www/scanservjs/config /tmp/scanservjs.bkp

# Remove all old application files
sudo rm -rvf /var/www/scanservjs

# Get rid of npm version update (prior to uninstalling npm)
sudo npm uninstall -g npm

# remove dependencies
sudo apt-get remove -yq \
  nodejs \
  npm \
  imagemagick \
  sane-utils \
  tesseract-ocr

sudo apt-get autoremove

To restore backed up files after install:

sudo cp -v /tmp/scanservjs.bkp/data/output/* /usr/lib/scanservjs/data/output
sudo cp -v /tmp/scanservjs.bkp/config/*.local.js /usr/lib/scanservjs/config
sudo chown $USER:$USER /usr/lib/scanservjs/data/output/*

Note that if you have a config.local.js then you may need to amend it to work in v3.x. Please refer to the updated config.default.js or documentation to reference the recommended pattern for using node require(...).

Arch

If you’re using Arch, then @dadosch created a PKGBUILD script in Arch’s AUR which allows Arch-distro-based users to quickly install and update scanservjs with any AUR helper, for example: yay -S scanservjs. See package for more.

Other distros

If you’re using another distro, then for the time being you either need to manually run the steps in the install script or use docker.

Uninstall

# Debian
sudo apt-get remove scanservjs

# Arch
sudo yay -R scanservjs

Note: For Debian pre v3.0.0 use the old installer with the -u switch: sudo /var/www/scanservjs/installer.sh -u. If you have installed v3.0.0 then this may interfere.