[sane-devel] Which HP-AIO Devices are supported by SANE

m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 14:29:14 UTC 2009


1. cd into your source and run 'make uninstall'. that should remove
everything sane related from /usr/local

2. `./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-locking`

3. make

4. rm -rf /etc/sane.d

5. make install

allan

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:16 AM, rohit bal <rohitsharma36 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Allan,
>
> So shall I remove the /usr/local/bin one or /usr/lib/sane.
>
> in /usr/local/bin I have only 3
> executables(scanimage,gamma4scanimage,sane-find-scanner,sane-config file).
>
> In /usr/lib/sane I have all .so files.
>
> What is the command to uninstall sane.
>
> Thanks,
> Rohi
>
>> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 09:02:19 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Which HP-AIO Devices are supported by SANE
>> From: kitno455 at gmail.com
>> To: rohitsharma36 at hotmail.com; sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:54 AM, rohit bal <rohitsharma36 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > ohh I am very sorry I did not understand what you said earlier.
>> >
>> > now I typed which scanimage , the output is below
>> >
>> > OUTPUT:>/usr/local/bin/scanimage
>> >
>>
>> and there is your problem. You have two copies of sane installed. The
>> copy in /usr/local has support for the newer scanners, the system copy
>> in /usr does not. Your $PATH has set /usr/local/bin to come first, so
>> you are running that copy of scanimage, which is linked against the
>> newer sane you built from source. Your program compiles and links
>> against the system copy, because your linker does not look in
>> /usr/local/lib first.
>>
>> The fix for this is something i mentioned about 50 mails ago: you
>> should remove the copy of sane from /usr/local, and instead rerun
>> configure with the proper arguments to overwrite the system copy of
>> sane, then make && make install.
>>
>> allan
>> --
>> "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
>
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