Thanks. Is there a recommended way of removing a duplicate sane installation besides trial & error ? Having got it partly working I don't want to blindly start deleting stuff.
Adam Bogacki, [email protected] >Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:10:46 +0200 >From: Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [sane-devel] Re: In praise of 'sane-troubleshoot' ... > >Hi, > >On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 09:37:34PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > > >>> Henning, I'm an admirer of 'sane-troubleshoot'. >>> >>> Working through it helped me isolate and work through problems >>> to the point where sane-find-scanner and scanimage -L >>> work - as root and user - and I can 'scanimage>image.pnm' >>> successfully ... but xsane tells me 'no devices available'. >> >> > >Probably beacuse youhave two installations of SANE on your system. One >is used by xsane and one by scanimage. > > > >>> One thing I'm not sure of is the correct place to put >>> the epson backend directory. 'sane-troubleshoot' >>> told me that the previous backend was old so I >>> downloaded the latest one from >>> http://www.khk.net/sane >>> untarred it in /home/adam and moved >>> it to /usr/local/lib/backend but 'sane-troubleshoot' >>> only found the one in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf >>> and could not find the scanner (which it had before >>> I 'updated' the backend). >> >> > >Those backend files need to be copied into the source code of SANE and >the source code must be built after that. I guess it's easier to use a >current CVS snapshot that already contains the newest backend. > >bye, > Henning >
