Allen! Thanks for your promptly reply.
> Are you able to compile sane-backends from source? Yes, I've some experience with compiling software packages from source (homebrew et cetera). It's the first time I used Debian's apt-get -b source to build the packages, but I think I succeeded. Obviously, the same error occurs after installing these packages. Are you going to send me a patch I could test? Best regards Dave What I did: apt-get install dpkg-dev dpatch libgimp2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev autotools-dev libv4l-dev libgphoto2-2-dev libltdl3-dev libjpeg-dev libtiff4-dev libusb-dev libieee1284-3-dev libavahi-client-dev texlive texlive-latex-extra chrpath xutils-dev apt-get -b source libsane-dev apt-get -b source libsane-extras dpkg -i libsane-extras_1.0.21.2_amd64.deb libsane-extras-dbg_1.0.21.2_amd64.deb libsane-extras-dev_1.0.21.2_amd64.deb dpkg -i libsane_1.0.21-9_amd64.deb libsane-dbg_1.0.21-9_amd64.deb libsane-dev_1.0.21-9_amd64.deb apt-get -b source sane dpkg -i sane-utils_1.0.21-9_amd64.deb sane_1.0.14-9_amd64.deb
