Re: Compiling Canon LiDE 220 driver from source

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 16 August 2016 13:49:48 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 16 Aug 2016 at 12:57:50 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote:
> > > A good guide to backporting is at
> > >
> > >  
> > > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/
> > >
> > > A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do
> > >
> > >   apt-get source libsane-common/unstable
> > >
> > > Then
> > >
> > >   apt-get build-deps libsane-common/unstable
> > >
> > > should get the dependencies from stable to build libsane-common and
> > > libsane.
> >
> > I have got stuck.  Only slightly further on than I had already got stuck.
> > (apt-get said it wasn't downloading what I had already downloaded!)
> >
> > root@Eros:/home/lisi/Sane-Files# apt-get build-deps
> > libsane-common/testing E: Invalid operation build-deps
>
> Mea culpa. Please see the apt-get manual: build-dep (no "s").

Thanks, both. :-)

Everything now built, though there was an error at the end:

Now running lintian...
warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root 
privileges!
W: libsane: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libsane1
N: 2 tags overridden (1 error, 1 warning)
Finished running lintian.
root@Eros:/home/lisi/Sane-Files/sane-backends-1.0.25# 

And although sane-find-scanner continued to be able to see the scanner, 
scanimage -L continues determinedly not to see it.

The Canon LiDE 220 is explicitly mentioned as being supported in the file 
sane-genesys.5, which is in /etc/sane.d

So it is there.  Somewhere.  But not being found.  There is a lot of gumph 
there from my various efforts, and I am afraid of just deleting anything 
because I don't know what should be there!

I haven't googled much yet.  My husband is asking why I don't just upgrade to 
Stretch.  Good question!!  But this should be soluble reasonably easily.

Lisi