[sane-devel] Problems with sane and USB

[cl at isbd.net]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 09:19:38AM +0000, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:12:39PM -0500, m. allan noah wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 cl at isbd.net wrote:
[snip]
> > >
> > >If I run "scanimage -L" as root it says "No scanners were identified".
> > >
> > >If I run "xsane" or "xscanimage" as root they find both my scanners.
> > 
> > the fact that scanimage does not work, but xsane does, generally means 
> > that you have two copies of sane-backends installed, often the distro's 
> > original one, and one in /usr/local
> > 
> Ah, thanks, it's possible that I do have two copies of sane installed,
> I'll investigate.
> 
It's not that I have two copies of sane installed, it's the various
"add-ons" that have screwed things up.  It would appear that both the
HPLIP/CUPS installation and the iscan installation have assumed a base
directory of /usr/local whereas the basic sane installation is in
/usr.

The result is a right hodge-podge of things in the wrong places.

It's *very* obvious why iscan doesn't work, I'm still less lear about
why "scanimage -L" doesn't work, as suggested I think I'll maybe try
uninstalling and then re-installing everything with "where to install"
set to the same place for all.

-- 
Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)