On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 01:12, Bjoern Brill wrote: > 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?
So far as I can tell, Kpackage is merely a more user-friendly** front-end for dpkg. Not sure quite what you mean by 'automatic dependency resolution' - it reports unmet dependencies, but it doesn't try to download the packages to fill them. ( ** 'user-friendly' as in, I don't have to read man dpkg ;) > - 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. > (snip) Many thanks for the info. I'll have another try with the Bunk backports. cr
