[sane-devel] [SOLVED] epson scanner with lenny

[Johannes Wiedersich]

Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za> writes:
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:20:43AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> I have some problems using the transparency unit of my "Epson perfection
>>> 4180 photo" on Debian Lenny, sane 1.0.14-7.
>>>
>>> Should I try to install epkowa's rpms via 'alien' instead?
>> I have an Epson Perfection 3170 and I have to use alienated epkowa
>> rpm's ot use it.
> 
> In your case also, using `alien --scripts` should work fine.
> 
> I'm sorry to inform you, but Debian packages for the interpreter for
> the Epson Perfection 3170 have not been scheduled for release.

Thanks to all for the responses! The transparancy unit now works! 8-)

Here is what I did: (for the archives and other users find)

as user:
fakeroot alien --scripts iscan-plugin-gt-f600-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm
fakeroot alien --scripts iscan-2.10.0-1.c2.i386.rpm

as root:
dpkg -i --force-overwrite iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb
dpkg -i iscan-plugin-gt-f600_1.0.0-2_i386.deb

There is a conflicting file in the alienated debian package,
/usr/share/man/man5/sane-epkowa.5.gz, which is also contained in the
debian package libsane-extras.

This means that on an upgrade of libsane-extras, one has to do manually
as root:

# dpkg --force-overwrite -i \
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libsane-extras_1.0.19.11_i386.deb
# dpkg --force-overwrite -i \
   /path/to/alienated/deb/iscan_2.10.0-2_i386.deb

Cheers,

Johannes