Hi Allan, Sorry for my missunderstanding instrunction.
Please install latest Sane backend from git (it's the ongoing development version) as described under "Step by step install on Linux 2.6.* and 3.*, both with udev" in README.linux. Here's the direct link: http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux . Cheers, Rolf Am 20.08.2015 um 16:23 schrieb Alan McConnell: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:47:55PM +0200, Rolf Bensch wrote: >> Hi Alan, >> >> The libsane version from Debian doesn't support your scanner. > There seems to be a consensus that I must upgrade to > libsane 1.0.24. So I have downloaded > libsane_1.0.24-8_i386.deb > and run dpkg -i libsane_1.0.24-8_i386.deb. > But this gives me error messages, letting me know that > the install was not successful. > > So, alas, I need further assistance. Is there a way > of removing _all_ sane stuff from my computer and > then downloading from sane-project.org a bunch of the > latest packages? This seems cumbersome, but what I > am doing is not successful. > >> You need to install Sane Development Version from git as described in >> README.linux (http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html). > I am guessing that SANE Standard Version 2.0(development) > is what is being referred to here. But when I click on this > I am told that this is currently under development. > > I apologize for what must seem like stupidity. But sinee > there are front-ends, back-ends, tools, etc for a person > to cope with, perhaps I may be pardoned, and helped > further. > > Alan > -- 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
