On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 03:50:30PM +1100, Mark Trickett wrote:
As i have mentioned, I have an Agfa SnapScan, and it appears to have died. I have bought a new scanner, and checked compatibility with the sane website. The Canon CanoScan LiDE 120 is listed as supported, but with scanimage 1.0.27, while the up to date scanimage on Debian 9.7 is 1.0.25.
the sane-utils (v 1.0.27) package in debian sid has the following dependencies: Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), update-inetd, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libc6 (>= 2.15), libieee1284-3, libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libsane (>= 1.0.27), libsystemd0, libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.8) libsane 1.0.27 doesn't have any dependencies. As long as the other installed library packages are at least equal to the versions mentioned above, you should be able to just download the .deb files for sane-utils and libsane and install them with dpkg. If not, download and update them (and any of THEIR dependencies) before installing sane-utils. i.e. download the following from your nearest debian mirror: .../debian/pool/main/s/sane-backends/libsane_1.0.27-3.1_amd64.deb .../debian/pool/main/s/sane-backends/sane-utils_1.0.27-3.1_amd64.deb and install them (as root) with: dpkg -iBE libsane_1.0.27-3.1_amd64.deb sane-utils_1.0.27-3.1_amd64.deb (or _i386.deb if you're running on an ancient CPU) Alternatively, download the debianised source for sane-utils and rebuild for debian 9. i.e. make your own backport. craig PS: I note that systemd has spread its monstrous tentacles even into userland apps like sane-utils. This is why systemd is a menace - it's already nearly impossible to avoid and will soon be **actually** impossible for distros that went down the systemd path of insanity to ever disentangle themselves from RedHat's linux takeover bid. FFS! If systemd confined itself to just doing init and didn't assimilate or infect everything else withing reach, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But this shit really makes me hate it. -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>