[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

[CACook at quantum-sci.com]

# aptitude install gscan2pdf
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gscan2pdf{b} libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl{a} libgtk2-imageview-perl{a} 
  libgtkimageview0{a} 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  cuneiform djvulibre-bin gocr libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl sane 
  tesseract-ocr unpaper 
0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 163 not upgraded.
Need to get 558 kB of archives. After unpacking 2,277 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gscan2pdf: Depends: libsane-perl which is a virtual package.
             Depends: libtiff-tools but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libpdf-api2-perl but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libconfig-general-perl (>= 2.40) but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: perlmagick but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libset-intspan-perl (>= 1.10) but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libgoo-canvas-perl but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libproc-processtable-perl but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: libreadonly-perl but it is not going to be installed.
             Depends: liblog-log4perl-perl but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     gscan2pdf [Not Installed]                          

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 163 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
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On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 07:04:31 AM CACook at quantum-sci.com wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # 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
>