On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, cr wrote: [...] > > > > > > Is there anywhere I can download just the e+48u libsane and conf files > > > from? Where (in a Debian system) should those files go? > > > > I doubt that dropping newer .so files into an old installation would > > work. Look at http://www.apt-get.org/ for a newer libsane package > > compiled for woody. Adrian Bunk's excellent backports collection should > > have one. libsane is about 2 megabyte, so it's not that huge. Maybe you > > need a newer libusb package as well, but try with the one you have first. > > Many thanks for the detailed advice. Apologies for the long delay in > acknoleding it, I was fiddling around tryong to get things to work. However, > I seem to be going backwards. :( > > I downloaded libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb from www.apt-get.org (or from the > link it pointed to). > Tried to install it using Kpackage (which invoked dpkg -i ...) I got an > error message of unmet dependencies - gphoto2 and libieee1284-3. > > I could try downloading those but I'm afraid of ending up in a cascade of > dependencies. I'd assumed Adrian Bunk's packages should be compatible with > what's already in Woody. > Sometimes, backporting a package involves backporting some of its dependencies as well. Those will then usually be provided in the same repository. I wasn't aware this was the case with libsane, too. Now, having had a look at it: - gphoto2 _is_ in woody, and libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb depends on version >= 2.0final-4, which is exactly the one in woody. It seems Kpackage doesn't do automatic dependency resolution? - libieee1248 is _not_ in woody. It _is_ in Adrian Bunk's backports collection, weights about 24KB and has no further non-woody dependencies.
> I see that my /etc/sane.d/ directory now contains *.conf.dpkg-new > equivalents of all the original *.conf files, plus one for the > artec_eplus48u. > > However, sane-find-scanner (which worked OK when I previously tried it) seems > to have completely disappeared. I get 'command not found'. I can't find > it anywhere in my system. > > This is frustrating. > Yes. It turns out that the utilities shipped with libsane have been split out into a separate package, sane-utils. However, this is advertised in the description of the new libsane package, which one can read with e.g. "dpkg --info libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb" (and presumably also with Kpackage, but I don't know or use this tool). A matching sane-utils package is also available from the Bunk repository, 82KB, no further external dependencies. > (Later...) > I just did apt-get -f install which removed sane, xsane and libsane. > Then I did apt-get install sane and apt-get install xsane (off the Woody > CD's) which put sane 1.0.7 back and now sane-find-scanner works. Which > is where I was at before... > > I think I may just upgrade to Sarge (which should be due for release any day > now) and hope that includes the Artec 48u backend. > As it looks at the moment, the next Debian release is still several months away. Upgrading to the testing distribution now would probably give you at least as rough a ride, but YMMV. Best regards, Bjoern -- Bj"orn Brill <[email protected]> Frankfurt am Main, Germany
