jerry writes: > On 03/04/2014 10:14, m. allan noah wrote: >> The genesys backend is a part of sane-backends, which is certainly >> included with ubuntu. Why do you need to compile anything? > *** I looked, it wasn't there.
The list of files for the libsane packages for precise, saucy and trusty all include libsane-genesys.so.1 which is the backend. Maybe you were looking in /usr/lib/ and didn't see (any?) backend. The backends live in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/ or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/ depending on your architecture since the days Ubuntu supports multiarch. See for example http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/libsane/filelist Modify codename and architecture to suit your needs. 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
