[email protected] writes: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:19:38AM +0000, [email protected] wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:12:39PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote: >> > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 [email protected] wrote: > [snip] >> > > >> > >If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified". >> > > >> > >If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners. >> > >> > the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means >> > that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's >> > original one, and one in /usr/local >> > >> Ah, thanks, it's possible that I do have two copies of sane installed, >> I'll investigate. >> > It's not that I have two copies of sane installed, it's the various > "add-ons" that have screwed things up. It would appear that both the > HPLIP/CUPS installation and the iscan installation have assumed a base > directory of /usr/local whereas the basic sane installation is in > /usr.
The iscan RPMs use /usr (and are not relocatable). If you compiled from source, the ./configure script is GNU standards compliant and uses /usr/local as the default prefix. A look at: $ ./configure --help would have told you that. You can easily recompile for /usr with # ./configure --prefix=/usr > The result is a right hodge-podge of things in the wrong places. > > It's *very* obvious why iscan doesn't work, I'm still less lear about > why "scanimage -L" doesn't work, as suggested I think I'll maybe try > uninstalling and then re-installing everything with "where to install" > set to the same place for all. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON AVASYS Corporation, SE1 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
