On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Yuval Levy <ylevy at uwo.ca> wrote: > > On 12/25/2013 07:04 PM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > /../ > > >> the stock 'buntu one. I only built and installed the sane-backends from > >> git. > > > > Eh, how did you configure that build? Did it by any change zap or > > clobber bits and pieces from the stock 'buntu libsane package you > > installed? > > Plain and simple: > > tar xvfz sane-backends-*.tar.gz > cd sane-backends-* > ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var > make > sudo make install
Um, that is certainly not plain and simple, that is overwriting system libraries willy-nilly. As I understand it, pure and simple would be something like this: BACKENDS="pixma epson2" ./configure make clean make make install (The linux readme file explains various details) Regards, Gernot Hassenpflug
