Dear All I am a very experienced Windows user who is looking to go over to Linux and this is the third time that I have installed a version of Suse, each time learning a little and relapsing back to Windows.
My hope is that most of my hardware will work with Suse 7.2. At that stage I will then concentrate on applications and hopefully have less reasons to use Windows. I am still very inexperienced. So far I have managed to: install Suse 7.2 onto my second physical hard drive and I boot to it via a floppy install applications from the distro using Yast2 install from a CD, because the instructions were included make an icon on the desktop to mount my LS120 drive I have recently purchased this scanner as it is sure to work with Suse 7.2. I had gone to: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html. From here I went to the link for the download page for the Epson SANE backend (still not sure what a backend is). I found the following: " Update for SuSE 7.2 Users I have created a Sane 1.0.6 RPM for SuSE 7.2. If you are using this system and need a newer version than the SuSE provided 1.0.4, please download this file and install it using this command: rpm -U sane-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm " Having downloaded this file (sane-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm) I logged in as root, created a new directory "/home/stephen/scanner", copied "sane-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm" to this directory, started a terminal window and typed "rpm -U sane-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm" I got a message "libgimp-1.2.so.0 is needed by sane-1.06-1" and there it stopped. I went to yast2 and did a search of the Install Software module and could not find "libgimp-1.2.so.0". The scanner was attached at the time. I have little doubt that I have done the wrong thing and this will be because I do not understand what I am doing. Any help would be appreciated Stephen (Swansea, UK) -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
