Hi.
We put together a step by step guide for sane specifically for stuff like
this at:
www.arrakis.es/~fsanta/sane/howto.html
it has been tested with Mandrake too and it works but it would mean you
having to start over again with the installation.
Good luck which ever route you take!
On Friday 20 April 2001 03:59, you wrote:
> Greetings all:
>
> To whom it may be that so graciously reads further:
>
> <apologetic>
> I have searched the archives, read the readme/install/problems files and
> generally done as much as I could before writing to the list - out of
> respect for all the good folks on here, as well as the greater community at
> large. :) </apologetic>
>
> My system: Linux Mandrake 7.2
>
> What I have done so far:
>
> rpm -ivh both stock sane/sane-devel packages and attempted to install xsane
> 7.2, then 6.1, and gave up due to the failure of dependencies that I was
> also not able to satisfy. So I rpm -e'd both and began to follow the
> instructions for removing all sane related files (as described within the
> documentation).
>
> find / -name "*sane*" and rm -f as appropriate.
>
> Then I downloaded the latest sane-backend 1.0.4 and as root did the
> ../configure, make, make install, with no events/errors.
>
> Next and finally I attempted to do the same with xsane .75 while being
> careful to do the untar, ./configure as a "normal user" specified by the
> instructions (I also varied this a little bit upon failure).
>
> The error output I get on ./configure is the following:
> ....
> checking for sane-config... no
> checking for SANE - version >= 1.0.0... no
> *** The sane-config script installed by SANE could not be found
> *** If SANE was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the SANE_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to sane-config.
> checking for gtk-config... no
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.2.0... no
> *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found
> *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
> *** your path, or set the GTK_CONFIG environment variable to the
> *** full path to gtk-config.
> checking for gimp-config... no
> checking for gimptool... no
> checking for libgimp/gimp.h... no
> checking for libgimp/gimpfeatures.h... no
> no
> *** Could not run GIMP test program, checking why...
> ../configure: =: command not found
> ../configure: =: command not found
> checking for png.h... no
> ****************************************************************
> ERROR: SANE-1.0.0 or newer is needed for compiling xsane
> - if you installed SANE as rpm make sure you also included
> sane-devel
> ****************************************************************
> [mark@msp xsane-0.75]$
>
> However find reveals the following(???):
>
> [mark@msp xsane-0.75]$ find /usr/local/ -name "*sane*"
> /usr/local/bin/sane-config
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d/saned.conf
> /usr/local/lib/sane
> ....
>
> Any help, comments, or suggestions would be extremely appreciated. :)
>
> Thanks so much in advance.
>
> And again I apologize in advance if this question has already been delt
> with and I have somehow missed the documentation, but I did at least try to
> find a clue before confessing that I have none. :)
>
> Steven (Mark's linux esquire and systems guy)
>
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