[sane-devel] Epson Perfection 1650 w/ RedHat 8.0

[Alexander Jolk]

gerard klaver wrote:
> > # scanimage --version
> > scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.8; backend version 1.0.0
> >
> > (That's strange since there is positively no other version of
> > sane-backends installed than RedHat's 1.0.8 in /usr/lib/sane.  Will
> > continue to investigate.)
> maybe some files in /usr/local ?

Definitely not, I verified.  I am pretty sure that RedHat's
sane-backends-1.0.8 is busted, not only it advertises itself as version
1.0.0, but it does not seem to have more functionality than a 1.0.0. 
Beware.

> Update to sane-backend 1.0.13  rpm (see for example
> sane download page for rpm links) can solve this problem

That fixed my problems, thanks a lot.

Alex

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