[sane-devel] Compiling and installing SANE

jerry jerry at tr2.com
Wed Mar 5 01:20:37 UTC 2014


On 03/04/2014 15:01, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:

>
> 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/

*** That's probably it.  There were some drivers in /usr/lib/sane.d - 
maybe 5.
I think the Brother stuff had installed itself there.

                - Jerry




>
> 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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