[sane-devel] iscan and apt dependencies

[Paul Fox]

hi --

i've installed the latest iscan debs to support my epson v500:
    iscan-plugin-gt-x770_2.1.0-1_i386.deb
    iscan_2.15.0-3_i386.deb

iscan won't install normally because it depends on libltdl3,
which isn't available on ubuntu 8.10 (which has libltdl7 installed).

i also can't just install the plugin .deb, because it depends on
the iscan .deb, which needs libltdl3.

however, after forcing the install with:
    dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libltdl3 iscan_2.15.0-3_i386.deb
and symlinking libltdl.so.7 to libltdl.so.3, iscan and all of the
sane front-ends work fine.

so at the least, this message is a bug report against the current
iscan dependencies.  (btw, i'm not sure i understand how this should be
resolved.)

but now i'm not sure whether i forced the installation correctly,
because i'm now kind of stuck (and maybe this is an apt
question).  i can't install or upgrade anything else because apt
thinks iscan is broken, and keeps insisting on trying to remove
it when it performs any other action.

any ideas on how to work around this?

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 29.8 degrees)