Am 17.05.2010 03:30, schrieb Chris Bagwell: > So, kltrg, you'll need to get a newer version of sane-backends. Hopefully, > you can get the officially released 1.0.21 by now.
I tried to get the official release but it wasn't so easy. Firstly, I tried to contact the person who own the PPA, no response. Secondly, I tried to compile sane from source which didn't quite work. I don't know what I was doing wrong but whatever I did, the result was the same: no support for my scanner. Thirdly, I looked into the Debian repositories and found the libsane and sane-utils packages (http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libsane/download, http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/sane-utils/download) and installed them manually in Ubuntu. 'scanimage --version' now gives me 'http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/sane-utils/download' without any 'cvs' so I'm running the stable release, right? Sadly, the scanner is less supported it was using the snapshot in the PPA. 'scanimage -L' doesn't list it any more. I don't know what to do any more.
