Re: [SLUG] SUSE 8.2

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 08:28:58 EDT


Richard S. Smoot wrote:

> Trying to get my Epson 2450 scanner fully functional in Linux.
> The book talks about Kooka. It doesn't tell that to get Kooka
> you have to install "kdegraphics3-scan".
> I want more functionality so I went for Epson-Kowa's ISCAN RPM.
> I couldn't figure out how to get it into YAST, but finally tried
> double clicking
> it and YAST came up. Then it said I needed the SANE Epson back ends.
> I got them as TAR.GZ. I UNTARed them, but how do I get YAST to use them?
> One of SUSE's failings is that I find no mention of downloading or
> what to do with
> downloaded files in the books that came with SUSE 8.2 Prof.

I think yast just uses the rpm database, and as such won't see anything
you install from tar.gz.
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