Re: Sane rpm installation problem

Matt Gundry (mjgundry@primenet.com)
Fri, 06 Mar 1998 02:06:18 +0000

Johan Bengtsson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a freshly installed RedHat 5.0 system, & I have installed the
> latest gimp & gtk rpm:s without any problems.
> I downloaded sane-0.71-1.i386.rpm & installed it without any error
> messages. But when I try to start xscanimage I get the following
> error message: "xscanimage: error in loading shared libraries
> libsane.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory"
> Why does this happen and what can i do about it??

I had the same problem with the alpha rpm. IIRC, try:

ln -s /usr/lib/libsane-dll.so.0 /usr/lib/libsane.so.0

For some reason this link is not being created.

> Regards,
> Johan B.

Hope that helps,
Matt Gundry
mjgundry@primenet.com

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