Re: SANE not installing properly

[Martin Kuball <MartinKuball@web.de>]

Hi,

Am Thursday 25 March 2004 21:05 schrieb Tom Simnett:
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> Hi,
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> Im running Debian/sid and have just installed sane, xsane,
> scanimage, and xscanimage.
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> xsane and xscanimage work without problems, but the command line
> sane and scanimage do not - /usr/bin/sane and /usr/bin/scanimage do
> not exist, and i believe a good number of other files too.

I think they are in the sane-utils package.

> I installed via apt-get install sane, so could it be a package
> badly built?
>
> The reason for this is that I am trying to get KView to load its
> scanning module, but it seems to think that:
>
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> == No Scan-Service Available - KView ==
>
> You do not appear to have SANE support, or your scanner
> is not attached properly. Please check these items before
> scanning again.
> </quote>

I installed sane and kooka yesterday. While I can scan using the 
commandline scanimage programm, kooka is not able to use the scanner. 
I tried kview and got the same response as you. Maybe it's a bug in 
libkscan1?

Martin