Dave Platt writes: >> Dave, >> >> Thank you very much, it did work, I used this. > > You're quite welcome! > >> I did notice that I do not have the same tweaks that Rolf and I had worked >> on on his ppa. I am guessing that his ppa gets updated more than the >> regular sane backend. > > He may be building from a custom tree, or one which is based on the > current top-of-branch development code at the SANE repository.
Rolf's PPA builds from the nightly `git archive` tarball but does apply some Ubuntu inspired patches for better distro integration (as do *any* of the official packages of any Linux distribution). > There have been a number of changes committed to the repo since > 1.0.27 was released, I believe, and you would not have found any of > those in the 1.0.27 tarball you downloaded. > >> One last question. Is the folder that gets extracted for building >> (sane-backends-1.0.27) >> tied to anything, or can it be removed? > > You should be able to remove it. Once the files are installed in > /usr/local/ there won't be any back-links to the source or build > directories. If you want to do a `make uninstall` later, when the official packages have fixed the problem for example, you might want to keep it around though. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 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