> > What "standard libsane Linux" packages are you referring to?
Well, I meant that my system had libsane installed. I was using the standard, if you can call it that, install of Xubuntu - and by standard I meant, how it comes off the peg. > you were looking for a libsane-epson package, right? You should install > the libsane package which includes the epson backend (as well as about > another 85 backends or so you probably don't need). If only I had known that this was possible and which package would have given that functionality.... I had searched repositories for references to epson (and in relation to sane) but without any luck. > > The hpaio backend is a third party backend, just like the one on the > Epson download site. These are developed independently from the SANE > project and not included in the sane-backends soure tree. Because of > that such backends are normally packaged separately. Okay. Cool. There might be some user glue missing somewhere. > >> [snip] Oh don't snip user protests, please! If the cries of anguish don't get through, the proletariat will always be thought happy in and deserving of their labour. Cheers Mark. > > Hope this helps, > -- > Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION > FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom > http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962 -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
