[sane-devel] Compiling and installing SANE

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

jerry writes:

> On 03/04/2014 10:14, m. allan noah wrote:
>> The genesys backend is a part of sane-backends, which is certainly
>> included with ubuntu. Why do you need to compile anything?
> *** I looked, it wasn't there.

The list of files for the libsane packages for precise, saucy and trusty
all include libsane-genesys.so.1 which is the backend.  Maybe you were
looking in /usr/lib/ and didn't see (any?) backend.  The backends live
in 

  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sane/

or

  /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/sane/

depending on your architecture since the days Ubuntu supports multiarch.

See for example

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/amd64/libsane/filelist

Modify codename and architecture to suit your needs.

Hope this helps,
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