Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:05:01PM +0100, Jim MacLeod wrote: >> Compiled your sane-backend-25-10-11 (first time I've compiled anything) and >> scanimage works ok. I scanned a page (without setting any parameters), but >> I really want to get the transparency unit working. >> Xsane or Kooka (kde) both fail with"no device found" and nowhere obvious to >> change configuration so I'm stuck with no gui at the moment. > > If scanimage works and the gui frontends don't, the usual cause is > that you have two installations of sane-backend on your system. One is > the one you compiled yourself (in /usr/local/...). This one is used by > scanimage, which came with sane-backends. The other one is the one > that came with your distribution (in /usr/...). This is used by the > graphical frontends. Either only install sane-backends once, or use a > trick like this: > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libsane.so xsane > >> Downloaded source.tar for iscan-1.17 but it fails at configure stage >> advising 'imlibgdk and gtk-config not found'. I haven't been able to find >> them either in Kubuntu repositories, particularly imlibgdk. > > The latter one should be part of gtk-devel or libgtk-dev or similar.
You really should install the development package for GTK+ 2.0. The check for imlibgdk is for the (some time soon to be deprecated?) GTK+ 1.2 support. On RPM based systems you're probably looking for gtk2-devel, on Debian based systems for libgtk2-dev. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, LAN FSF Associate Member #1962 sign up at http://member.fsf.org/ GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
