[sane-devel] help compiling sane

[Paul Newall]

On 02/03/15 14:18, Rafe DiDomenico wrote:
> I compile dvb drivers after kernel updates quite often, so this is not 
> completely new to me, but I had some trouble with sane and haven't 
> gotten it to work.
>
> First of all this is Ubuntu 14.10 64
>
> I followed the steps outlined here: 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompileSaneFromSource
>
> Installed the dependencies and pulled the source just fine.
>
> Installed the libraries to /usr/lib/sane
>
> So, make and make install ran and I have a directory full of drivers 
> but running scanimage -L with root or not doesn't find anything.
>
> I checked that /etc/ld.so.conf includes /usr/lib
>
> but still nothing
>
> As you can tell I don't do this professionally. Any help would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
Was your original sane library installed in /usr/lib/sane ?
I am guessing you might now have 2 installations of sane, one in 
/usr/lib/sane  and the original somewhere like /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20150302/674cce1c/attachment.html>