Hi, I have a really weird problem... Just got an Epson Perfection 1260 Photo scanner, which is said to be fully supported by SANE, according to the SANE home page. That's the good news. The bad news is that unless I use version 1.0.10 or higher of SANE, I can BREAK my scanner, even with the correct driver! I am running SuSE 8.1, which has the 1.0.8 version. (I caught this just as I was about to scan my first image! (Whew!) First, I tried downloading SANE's own tarballed version 1.0.12. The build, make, and install went OK, but when I tried to remove 1.0.8, YaST complained bitterly. I ignored it, but then when I tried xsane, IT complained that SANE was not properly installed. Guessing that there is something odd about the SuSE version that YaST handles, I got rid of the 1.0.12 version. Second, I tred downloading the SuSE RPM (SANE 1.0.10) from the SuSE 8.2 ftp site. I first was unable to change my installation medium to my home directory to install the package. So then I tried rpm -i blahblah.rpm. I got a message that the package could "not be installed". Using --install got the same result. How can I either (a) get YaST to behave or (b) install the software I need so YaST will realize that SANE IS installed and I can configure my scanner or (c) find a how-to that will tell me how to do manually whatever YaST is set up to do? YaST is blocking me at the software installation level and I am sure will block me at the configuration level even if I do get the software installed. Thanks in advance. Steve Miller __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 02:25, Steve Miller wrote:
Hi,
Second, I tred downloading the SuSE RPM (SANE 1.0.10) from the SuSE 8.2 ftp site. I first was unable to change my installation medium to my home directory to install the package. So then I tried rpm -i blahblah.rpm. I got a message that the package could "not be installed". Using --install got the same result.
How can I either (a) get YaST to behave or (b) install the software I need so YaST will realize that SANE IS installed and I can configure my scanner or (c) find a how-to that will tell me how to do manually whatever YaST is set up to do? YaST is blocking me at the software installation level and I am sure will block me at the configuration level even if I do get the software installed.
You can try to install the package with Yast, like this: # yast2 -i /path/to/package/package.rpm Or you can try the manual way: rpm -Uvh /path/to/package/package.rpm If you already have a version of the package installed, you need to upgrade the package and not install it. I use rpm -Uvh by default, that way new package is installed and an existing one is upgraded. HTH -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->
Hi,
Thanks, but neither idea worked (?!). I got the same
error message as before with RPM. With YaST and YaST2,
I got interesting displays that indicated something
was going on ("reading package information", for
instance), but the package was not installed.
I tried changing the source media again. Whether I
tried changing it to a local directory, a CD besides
the SuSE installation disks, or even the FTP site, I
got the same error:
ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media)
This is amazing to me. I've changed media with past
versions of YaST (even using a floppy once) without
difficulty. This, by the way, was AFTER I did hwscan
--cdrom on the advice of the support site. (I'd burned
a CD after the initial install.)
Thanks again,
Steve
--- Andre Truter
You can try to install the package with Yast, like this:
# yast2 -i /path/to/package/package.rpm
Or you can try the manual way:
rpm -Uvh /path/to/package/package.rpm
If you already have a version of the package installed, you need to upgrade the package and not install it.
I use rpm -Uvh by default, that way new package is installed and an existing one is upgraded.
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