Re: sane and iscan and rpm

From: Robert M. Stockmann (stock_at_stokkie.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 03:33:19 +0100

On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:47:15 -0500, foamy wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:10:13 -0500, Allan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Great scanner!
> I have one and it works perfectly, with Windows XP of course.
> Took five minutes to install and I was up and scanning.
> I would strongly suggest that you take all the money you could have earned
> at Walmart as a greeter and buy yourself a copy of Windows XP and be done
> with it.
> Even at the $6.00 /hr you might be earning at Walmart, the many hours you
> have wasted trying to make Linux work would have netted you a copy of
> Windows XP.
> foamy

[jackson:root]:(~)# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b8:011b Seiko Epson Corp. Perfection 2400 Photo
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
[jackson:root]:(~)#

this one here works like a champ inside Mandrake 10.0 amd64, using USB2.0...
gimp/xsane/sane/openoffice rockz :)

Robert 

-- 
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org  stock@stokkie.net

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