Hi, szukw...@arcor.de writes:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:21:52 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > >>Now, since you obviously used rebuilt RPMs, please do yourself, me and >>other users a favour and file a bug report with wherever you got these >>packages from (Slackware?). > > No rebuilt RPM files. I got them from the usual place: > > http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/du/02/DriverDownloadInfo.do?LG2=EN&CN2=&DSCMI=42022&DSCCHK=88391fc211b8dd153dd7b0ad658ede12ba3a9742 > > Via 'Package Download Page' I got the bundle. > > And via 'Source File Download Page' I got the sources in case > dependencies were not met by the bundle. > > SLACKWARE allows to expand RPM archives via: > > rpm2cpio RPM | cpio --extract I did just that, adding a --make-directories option to the cpio command. The usr/sbin/iscan-registry file that creates has STATEDIR=/var/lib/iscan You said yours has STATEDIR=/usr/var/lib/iscan Something is not consistent and that bothers me, somewhat. > I have now written some shell scripts to uninstall all files and > directories, one to create directories before installation and one > to call 'iscan-registry'. > > 1. First I called the uninstall scripts. > 2. Then I called the make-dir script. cpio --make-directories will do that for you. > 3. From top I did: > > rpm2cpio iscan-data-1.36.0-1.noarch.rpm | cpio --extract > > rpm2cpio iscan-plugin-perfection-v370-1.0.0-2.x86_64.rpm | cpio --extract > > rpm2cpio iscan-2.30.1-1.usb0.1.ltdl7.x86_64.rpm | cpio --extract > > 4. Then I called the registry script. > The interpreter file is now in '/var/lib/iscan'. > > That was all to make 'iscan' work. And 'xsane' and 'scanimage' with > the Epson V370. BTW, have a look at rpm2tgz. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- EPSON AVASYS CORPORATION Free Software Foundation Associate Member since 2004-01-27 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- 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