Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: >"T. Ribbrock" <[email protected]> wrote in the last therad you initiated >that he has made RPMs for Redhat. That would be more clean than to >install from .tar.gz > Perhaps I misread T. Ribbrocks message. I thought he said he had rpms for sane-backends-1.0.9, but not yet for 1.0.11. My impression was that 1.0.11 would solve the problems but 1.0.9 might not. So I opted for the tar version.
>you could . . . overwrite the files of your distribution. That's done by >running configure in sane-backends with the arguments --prefix=/usr >--sysconfigdir=/etc. Check configure --help for the meaning. > That's extremely useful information that never occured to me. I will check the configure --help files and figure out how to install the new files on top of the old ones. I will also uninstall the old files by forcing rpm to ignore the dependencies. Thanks for the suggestions. And for your patience with one who knows so little. Rich Teitel
