This sounds like a great way to go, except for being a newb and nothing ever seems to work right for me when trying to build it myself, then I'm stuck with half a build sitting on my PC and no idea how to remove it...case in point one such program sits on my PC right now, the build instructions I used were for Ubuntu and of coarse Debian doesn't use all the same libraries so a few folders we're not found and items not built correctly.
If you have a great source for a walk through so I can learn how to build this specifically for libsane and Debian, I would definitely give it a try, but I have found that if I don't have a good resource to fall back on, it is probably a bad idea for me to try, I tend to break things, lol. On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, 7:12 AM Dave Platt <dpl...@radagast.org> wrote: > > > > >I'm trying really hard not to destroy Debian Stable. I am a Linux newb and > >it is really easy to get carried away with reading websites and trying > >different things and messing up things I know nothing about. > > Another option is to download the 1.0.27 SANE backends source code, > and build it yourself. > > "apt-get build-deps libsane" should download the development libraries > on which the backend depends (these are the development files which > correspond to the runtime libraries currently in your Debian distribution). > This should also get you the required software told (e.g. gcc and > make and so forth) if you don't have them already. > > You would then download the sources for 1.0.27, unpack, configure, and > build. You would end up with a new set of backends which were built > against > your current Debian "stable" library set, so there would be no need to > update > your system with libraries from Debian "testing", Ubuntu, or elsewhere. > Then, > "make install". > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org >
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