[sane-devel] scanner not recognised

[Karl Heinz Kremer]

You don't have to reinstall Fedora. Just go to the package manager and
select Sane again. It will then automatically make sure that all 
necessary
packages are installed.

Karl Heinz

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On Feb 28, 2004, at 4:31 AM, Paul Frisson wrote:

> OK, tried to remove packages but as you said i ran into dependecy 
> trouble, so
> I think I'm in a real mess now among the sane versions and that the 
> best is
> to reinstall fedora to be with a "clean" system. That will take some 
> time
> because I'll have to reconfigure the wireless in order to make it work 
> (that
> was "the" problem before I started to try configuring the scanner).
>
> 1.0.13 because I had an answer to my scanner-question telling that the 
> problem
> could be solved with the upgrade.
>
> Here I go then to reinstall; Have to do it with fedora and not RH9 
> 'cause
> anaconda does not recognise the Geforce4 properly, but i know the 
> scanner
> problem will not be solved anyway, so I'll be calling for help again.
>
> Thank you
>
> Paul Frisson
>
> On Saturday 28 February 2004 01:55, you wrote:
>> All the packages that are listed are part of an older Sane version. 
>> You
>> could try to uninstall
>> these files by running
>> rpm -e sane-frontends
>> (and similar commands for the other packages). You may need the hpoj
>> package (I don't know
>> anything about HP scanners, so I don't know where this package comes
>> from). You may run into
>> dependency problems.
>>
>> Before you start: Why do you want to use 1.0.13? Do you need this for
>> your HP scanner? Your best
>> bet for getting a working Sane version back is to actually remove the
>> new version and to use
>> the one that came with Fedora.
>>
>> Karl Heinz