On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > There are three ways to do this: > > 1. Run the configure command as I gave it to you, but without the > quotes, continue with make, make install. > > 2. Simon's approach, just use the rpms. Download the rpm you want to > install and try it. when it complains about a missing dependency, > download that too, and try to install both of the them with one > command. Continue this process until it installs, by which time you > will be running Fedora 9 :) > > 3. The distro's approach, just reinstall the entire OS with something > that contains the packages you want. Fedora 8 is pretty old at this > point, and Fedora 10 is pretty good, and contains sane 1.0.19, and the > hpaio drivers already installed. > > At this point, after watching you struggle for days to cut and paste > the most basic commands into a terminal correctly, I would STRONGLY > suggest #3. >
But, if you continue with #2, here is a warning- rpm generally does not overwrite config files. So, it will leave you with the old config files in /etc/sane.d, which means that the new backend will not get loaded, even if it is installed properly. So, you might want to remove the /etc/sane.d directory before you try to upgrade those packages with rpm. I dont know what effect this might have on hpaio, another reason to just install a new distro. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"