On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 04:49:16 +0000 (GMT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> > have you got iscan running on mandrake 9.1 yet?
> 
> Not yet.
> 
> > this person did:
> > 
> > http://www.mostang.com/pipermail/sane-devel/2003-August/008593.html
> 
> I hadn't read that, but already tried the method mentioned.

yes, but you didn't tell us what went wrong. you'll see the poster said
he had to find a wayward library first. (libimlib1-devel). are you sure
you have all the dependencies. post your compilation error messages.

>I note that
> Iscan docs claim if you installed sane from rpm, get iscan from rpm, and
> if you installed sane from tar/source, do likewise for iscan. How is that
> necessary?

Ithink its just encouraging you to stick to one packaging method.

if i were you i'd try to compile it from the .src.rpm file. that is
provided by epson. otoh the post i pointed to said they had compiled it
using the tar.gz file (and this worked on my gentoo box)

compiling from a src.rpm is acheived by the methods described (rather
tersely) in man rpm, or at more length in the maximum rpm book
(http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/) It basically results in a binary rpm for
you to install, compiled on your machine with your libraries, but with
all the info to go into the rpm database, easy removal via rpm etc.



> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
> 
> 

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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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