Hello, On May 8 12:15 gobo wrote (excerpt): > this is under SLED 11 sp3. they tend to be behind. i'll have to see > if they have anything newer. > > On 5/8/14, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Suggestions- yes. sane-backends 1.0.20 is positively ancient. upgrade.
It depends on who "they" is ;-) If "they" is the official SUSE Enterprise Customer Support, then "they" do not have a newer sane-backends RPM package. If "they" is openSUSE, then I provide in my openSUSE home project sane-backends-1.0.22 RPM packages built for "SLE_11_SP3" (i.e. SLES 11 SP3 and SLED 11 SP3) for 32-bit i586 and 64-bit x86_64 architecture. Why no current sane-backends-1.0.24 for SLE11? Because it does no longer build (with reasonable effort for me) in the "positively ancient" SLE11 environment. For direct RPM download go to http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/SLE_11_SP3/ Before you install such RPM packages, carefully read https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Ajsmeix ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Home Project of Johannes Meixner http://en.opensuse.org/User:Jsmeix This is my personal playground where packages could be severely incompatible with official openSUSE packages. Do not somehow add the whole "home:jsmeix" repository to be used by your package installer (e.g. via YaST). Using the whole "home:jsmeix" repository could be a perfect way to mess up your system. Instead only download the packages of your particular interest which match your excat system from the appropriate sub-directory in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/ and install them manually (e.g. using plain "rpm"). If you are unexperienced with manual installation, do not install any package from "home:jsmeix". Packages in the "home:jsmeix" project might neither be in usable state nor fit into currently installed systems. Have this in mind if you think about to install packages from "home:jsmeix" into your currently running system. Do not use "Factory" if your system is not "Factory". Use the matching packages for your particular system. The packages in the "home:jsmeix" project are only for testing, without any guarantee or warranty, and without any support. As an extreme example, this means if your complete computer center crashes because of those packages, it is only your problem. On the other hand this does not mean that all those packages are known to be terrible broken (but some of those packages could be really broken) and none of those packages are thoroughly tested so that any unexpected issue can happen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Personally - without any guarantee or warranty - I assume sane-backends-1.0.22 from the "home:jsmeix" project should "just work" for SLE 11 SP3 - but I have not verified it. When you have a support contract with our official SUSE Enterprise Customer Support, then check with them whether or not installing sane-backends-1.0.22 from the "home:jsmeix" project might somehow invalidate your support contract. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer
