[sane-devel] Compiling and installing SANE
jerry
jerry at tr2.com
Tue Mar 4 20:40:48 UTC 2014
On 03/04/2014 10:11, Matthew Baker wrote:
> As you have with the binaries I would ensure you copy your sane /etc
> conf files to /usr/etc/
*** Thanks Matthew!
The fix was to add a line: "brother2" to
/usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf, which is apparently the list
of libs for supported scanners. That's an interesting file. I bet
scanimage -L would get a lot faster if I commented out all the scanners
I *DONT* have.
- Jerry
>
> HTH's,
>
> matb
> On 5 Mar 2014 05:04, "jerry" <jerry at tr2.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just got a little mobile scanner on Ebay ( a Visioneer strobe
>> XP300 ) and desire to use it with my Ubuntu systems. I see that
>> support for such things is in the "genesys" backend, which alas is not
>> part of the standard Ubuntu installation. So I had to leave the
>> comfortable world of Ubuntu packages and go get the source. I
>> downloaded backends v1.0.24 and frontends 1.0.14.
>>
>> The backend build informed me that the library had moved from
>> /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib and advised to
>> uninstall sane before installing the source build. OK, I
>> uninstalled SANE with the Synasptic package manager. The usual
>> configure/make/make install sequence worked without incident.
>>
>> Trying the same thing with the frontend, the compile failed with
>> a couple of undefined constants:
>> SANE_OPTION_IS_SETTABLE and SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE. A web search
>> told me that these defines had been removed at some point. So I
>> commented out both of them.
>>
>> Scanimage complained that it couldn't find /usr/lib/libsane.so.1
>> - so I stuck in a symbolic link. The real fix of course would
>> be to get the source of scanimage....
>>
>> I also have a Brother multifunction machine out on my network,
>> and have used the Brother SANE driver to access it. That scanner
>> doesn't seem to be visible now. The Brother stuff is not open source
>> - they just give you their compiled libs. I copied them from
>> /usr/lib/sane to /usr/local/lib/sane, but no Brother action from
>> scanimage. Do I have to do something special to make SANE "notice"
>> that there is a Brother driver in there? Maybe an ldconfig command?
>>
>> - Jerry Kaidor
>>
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