Re: [SLUG] SUSE 8.2

From: craig@ctrust.com
Date: Tue Jun 22 2004 - 08:33:07 EDT


On 22 Jun 2004 at 7:41, Logan Tygart wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:19, 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.
> >
> > Richard Smoot
>
> I do not know how to make YAST to use the SANE backend, but I wrote an
> example of how to set up the backend by hand and posted it to the list
> about a year ago:
>
> http://slug.archives.nks.net/List/slug.archive.0208/0032.html
>
> The Logan
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SANE should be a package already built on your
SuSE disks, or since its 8.2, you can pull it form
their FTP site, but dependencies might be a PITA
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