[sane-devel] How to download files for Artec e+48u scanner?

[Bjoern Brill]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, cr wrote:

[...]
> > >
> > > Is there anywhere I can download just the e+48u libsane and conf files
> > > from? Where (in a Debian system) should those files go?
> >
> > I doubt that dropping newer .so files into an old installation  would
> > work. Look at http://www.apt-get.org/ for a newer libsane package
> > compiled for woody. Adrian Bunk's excellent backports collection should
> > have one. libsane is about 2 megabyte, so it's not that huge. Maybe you
> > need a newer libusb package as well, but try with the one you have first.
>
> Many thanks for the detailed advice.   Apologies for the long delay in
> acknoleding it, I was fiddling around tryong to get things to work.  However,
> I seem to be going backwards.     :(
>
> I downloaded libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb from www.apt-get.org (or from the
> link it pointed to).
> Tried to install it using Kpackage (which invoked  dpkg -i ...)    I got an
> error message of unmet dependencies -  gphoto2 and libieee1284-3.
>
> I could try downloading those but I'm afraid of ending up in a cascade of
> dependencies.   I'd assumed Adrian Bunk's packages should be compatible with
> what's already in Woody.
>
Sometimes, backporting a package involves backporting some of its
dependencies as well. Those will then usually be provided in the same
repository. I wasn't aware this was the case with libsane, too. Now,
having had a look at it:
  - gphoto2 _is_ in woody, and libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb depends
    on version >= 2.0final-4, which is exactly the one in woody. It seems
    Kpackage doesn't do automatic dependency resolution?
  - libieee1248 is _not_ in woody. It _is_ in Adrian Bunk's backports
    collection, weights about 24KB and has no further non-woody
    dependencies.

> I see that my /etc/sane.d/ directory now contains  *.conf.dpkg-new
> equivalents of all the original  *.conf files, plus one for the
> artec_eplus48u.
>
> However, sane-find-scanner (which worked OK when I previously tried it) seems
> to have completely disappeared.   I get 'command not found'.   I can't find
> it anywhere in my system.
>
> This is frustrating.
>
Yes.

It turns out that the utilities shipped with libsane have been split out
into a separate package, sane-utils. However, this is advertised in the
description of the new libsane package, which one can read with e.g.
"dpkg  --info libsane_1.0.12-4.bunk_i386.deb"
(and presumably also with Kpackage, but I don't know or use this tool).
A matching sane-utils package is also available from the Bunk repository,
82KB, no further external dependencies.

> (Later...)
> I just did  apt-get -f install which removed sane, xsane and libsane.
> Then I did apt-get install sane and apt-get install xsane (off the Woody
> CD's) which put sane 1.0.7 back and now   sane-find-scanner works.    Which
> is where I was at before...
>
> I think I may just upgrade to Sarge (which should be due for release any day
> now) and hope that includes the Artec 48u backend.
>
As it looks at the moment, the next Debian release is still several months
away. Upgrading to the testing distribution now would probably give you at
least as rough a ride, but YMMV.


Best regards,

Bjoern
--
Bj"orn Brill <brill at fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>
Frankfurt am Main, Germany