[sane-devel] ERROR: eula text not found. Looks like xsane is not installed correct.

[Steven P. Ulrick]

On 04 Apr 2006 00:29:12 +0200
Oliver Rauch <Oliver.Rauch at Rauch-Domain.DE> wrote:

Hello, Oliver

> XSANE_DEBUG=128 xsane 2>&1 | grep eula

[steve at afolkey2 ~]$ XSANE_DEBUG=128 xsane 2>&1 | grep eula
[xsane] xsane_display_eula(1)
[xsane] path = "/usr/local/xsane/xsane-eula.txt"
[xsane] ERROR: eula text not found. Looks like xsane is not installed
correct. [xsane] user did not accept eula, we abort


> and
> 
> ls -l /usr/local/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt

[steve at afolkey2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/local/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1265 Apr  3
15:31 /usr/local/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt

> Best regards
> Oliver
> 
> Am Mon, 2006-04-03 um 23.04 schrieb Steven P. Ulrick:
> > Hello, Everyone
> > Before I bothered you all, I looked at the many answers to all the
> > other times that this question has been asked in the past.
> > Unfortunately, none of them seems to answer my problem.
> > 
> > 1. Downloaded xsane-0.991
> > 2. Configured and compiled it with the following command:
> > "./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> > --with-gimp-prefix=/usr/local/2006-03-31 && make" 3. As root, ran
> > "make install" 4. As regular user, ran "/usr/local/bin/xsane"
> > 5. Got the following error message:
> > [xsane] ERROR: eula text not found. Looks like xsane is not
> > installed correct.
> > 
> > That much you expected to see just by looking at the subject line.
> > Next, I did the logical thing and found out where my working copy of
> > xsane keeps the "eula" file.  I found it located as follows:
> > /usr/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt
> > 
> > Therefore, I would assume that since "/usr/local" is in my path, and
> > since I configured xsane 0.991 to be installed in "/usr/local", that
> > "xsane-eula.txt" should be located in
> > "/usr/local/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt"  Since logic says that
> > it should be there, and I got an error message stating that xsane
> > could not find it, one would assume that
> > "/usr/local/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt" did not get installed.
> > Unfortunatlely, it is installed where it is supposed to be.  As a
> > result, I am at a loss.  The version that ships with Fedora Core 5
> > installs "xsane-eula.txt" as /usr/share/sane/xsane/xsane-eula.txt.
> > That version works perfectly for me.  The version that I compiled
> > from source installs it in the same directory, except it is
> > in /usr/local as opposed to /usr.  This version does not start.
> > 
> > So if you could help me solve this mystery, it would be greatly
> > appreciated.  Oh yeah, almost forgot.  Just to be sure, I did "rm
> > -rf /home/steve/.sane" and then attempted to run xsane 0.991.
> > Still no joy...
> > 
> > Have a Great Night,
> > Steven P. Ulrick