Re: sane and iscan and rpm

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 11/08/04

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    foamy <flipal@woil1093.com> writes:

    ]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.

    Stupid system. Why would it uninstall? Too much nanying. Sounds like they
    are trying to be like MS.

    But why not just get the sane-backend rpm from say the SUSE or Mandrake sites.

    ]>
    ]>
    ]> 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

    The name of the file is irrelevant. The file contains the name of the
    package.

    ]> 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!

    Shitty scanner. Slow as molasses flowing uphill in January in Alaska.

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