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Was easy as hell for me, just followed the instructions that came with it and downloaded the drivers through brother's site. Needed the br_scan_skey one too for scanning from the button (but stopped doing that as scanning from the PC just works better, you can change the filetype, "aspect ratio" [not right word but ykwim], and resolution from the pc using something like gnome's Document Scanner, not so from the button.)
I'd look at the specific model before you pull the trigger and go ahead and make sure it has thr drivers on brother's site, for mine (and I imagine most) they have .RPM and .DEB.