> The good news is that I've acquired a scanner - the bad news is that when > I try to install the stable version of Sane 1.0.1-1999-10-21-12, I get > the message telling me that Sane conflicts with Gimp 1.1 and that Gimp > 1,2 provides Gimp 1.1. > > Is there a way around this? I tried compiling sane against my own set-up I'm running (X)sane and gimp from unstable. No problems, no compiling required.