Thanks for the advice. I shall try to find the information out.
Jonathan
Oliver Rauch wrote:
> "Jonathan P. Dietrich" wrote:
>
> > I am new to sane and have a question I can' figure out. I have a Umax
> > Astra 600S scanner that I am trying to make work in Linux. I looked on
> > the Sane homepage and found that this scanner is supported by sane, so I
> >
> > downloaded a pre-compiled version of Sane. (I don't know how to compile
> > source code) Then I typed:
> >
> > dpkg -i sane_1.0.2-1.deb
> >
> > I get a message after this that sane conflicts with gimp 1.1.22-1
> >
> > I can't figure out what to do, as I don't know much about what I am
> > doing. Can somebody explain simply what I need and what I am doing
> > wrong? I am sure I sound ignorant, but I am trying to learn. I was
> > "brought up" on Windows and am trying to switch over to Linux. Quite a
> > contrast, to say the least!
> >
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> it looks like you try to install a sane version where xscanimage is compiled with
> an other gimp version than you have installed.
>
> Try to find out what gimp version in needed (don`t ask me how, I don`t know the debian
> package manager) and install that gimp version
>
> Bye
> Oliver
>
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