[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

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On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 08:01:39 AM m. allan noah wrote:
> you are using the wrong application. try gscan2pdf instead.

Thanks, but it seems uninstallable. (below)  I used the Ubuntu deb line in my sources.list and tried every release back to Karmic, and same error.  

I've fussed with this kind of problem before using Aptitude, and broke my package managment system.  

gscan2pdf is available in Debian Sid, but when I turn off testing and on unstable in sources.list, it wants to upgrade a number of other libraries to support gscan2pdf, which I'm afraid will break my system when I set it back to testing.

Don't know what to do.


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# apt-get install gscan2pdf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gscan2pdf : Depends: libsane-perl but it is not installable
             Recommends: libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: djvulibre-bin but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: unpaper but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: gocr but it is not going to be installed
             Recommends: tesseract-ocr but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages