On 18/03/13 10:56 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Using Squeeze with TDE 3.5.13.2
I need some drivers in order to use Xsane with my scanner. I have
downloaded and untarred the tarballs for sane-backends-1.0.23 and
sane-frontends-1.0.14, which are the ones I need, and all the files
appear to be there. But I still get the error message<no devices
available>
Clearly I have not told xsane where to look. But I don't know how, so I
googled. The best answer I got was this:
<quote>
Probably your PATH environment var is set to use /usr/local/bin before
/usr/bin, so you are using the scanimage binary you compiled with
sane-backends, but you have nothing similar for libraries using
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
you have two choices: 1. recompile sane-backends to overwrite the
version installed by your OS, or 2. teach binaries to load the sane
libs from /usr/local/lib, see man ld.so
</quote>
So how do I "recompile sane-backends to overwrite the
version installed by your OS"? How do I tell it to overwrite? Or how do
I "teach binaries to load the sane libs from /usr/local/lib"
I have looked at man ld.so.
<quote>
Currently ld.so has no means of unloading and searching for compatible or
newer
version of libraries.
ld.so functionality is only available for executables compiled
using libc ver‐
sion 4.4.3 or greater.
</quote>
I have:
Package: libc-bin
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 2.11.3-4
I am stuck and this is fairly urgent. So I am asking for help instead of
giving myself a day or two to breathe, before trying again.
I would be very grateful for any pointers.
Thanks,
Lisi
The beauty of open source is that you have the sources and can recompile
them. Since the problem seems to be that the current binaries don't
include the drivers you need, download the sane sources and recompile
them. For this you will need to get not just the sane source packages
but also the build-essentials package.