sane and iscan and rpm

From: Allan (amau_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:10:13 -0500

I am not a programmer and am far too old to start now, so I'm hoping some of
you younger folk will bear with me.

I made the mistake of buying an Epson Perfection 1250 Photo scanner a year
and a half ago without checking if it would run under Linux. Of course I
had to pick the only Epson scanner which was not supported at the time.
Fortunately, I heard of a program called iscan put out by Epson and was
away to the races, so to speak.

On upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1, I found that iscan would no longer work.
Checking on the Epson site, I found a newer version of Iscan which however
wouldn't load because of broken dependencies - it wants sane-backends which
I think is the way sane is now configured. If I install Iscan with
--nodeps, it works. However, every time I run apt-get (or rather synaptic)
Iscan is automatilly uninstalled because of the broken dependency.

So I obtained the latest sane-backends source from the sane site, compiled
and installed it. But Iscan still can't find it since it's installed from
a tarball rather than an rpm file. I then tried to compile Iscan from the
source file but found it wouldn't because of missing gnome dependencies.

So I then downloaded the 9.2 sane source file from a SuSE mirror site and
tried compiling that. Of course that didn't work because of failed
dependencies including X.org.

So I have two questions for you experts. One, is it possible easily to
convert a tarball to an rpm file? Two, if I rename the sane.rpm file to
sane-backends.rpm and install that file, under which name will it be
recognized by Iscan and apt-get? Maybe there's a third question. Is it
possible to fool rpm into recognizing a tarball install?

By the way, obtaining an answer is not of earth shattering importance since
my scanner is now supported by sane though there are apparently still some
problems with scanning transparencies.

Any help greatly appreciated and many thanks offered in advance for
suggestions.

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