[CentOS] Newer SANE packages for 5.9 ??

[fred smith]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 04:24:33PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:06:08 -0500
> > fred smith wrote:
> >
> >> I've been messing around with building sane from source, but have not
> >> been fully successful, yet, so thought before butchering my system any
> >> further I should ask if anyone has (or can point me to) newer Sane
> >> packages for EL5??
> >
> > This may be of interest to you.
> >
> > http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/canon-lide-110-scanner/
> 
> That would work fine with CentOS-6. But the OP is running EL5.
> 
> I got my LiDE 110/210 working that was connected to a Scientific Linux
> 5.7 box. The following procedure was from about 14 months ago, so some
> part might not be current (but hopefully get you started).
> 
> - Rebuild xsane 0.998
> - Rebuild sane-backends 1.0.19 (later version did not rebuild) -> not good
> - Compile sane-backends 1.0.23 from git (tarball) [1] and
>     manually copied genesys-related files from /usr/local/
> - At this point scanner was found by root but not by non-root
> - Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and change Mode from 0644 to 0666
> 
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", \
>         PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'K=%k; K=$${K#usbdev}; printf
> bus/usb/%%03i/%%03i $${K%%%%.*} $${K#*.}'", \
>         NAME="%c", MODE="0666"

Akemi:

Thanks a bunch!

I had already built 1.0.22, so I just copied over the genesys files from 
/usr/local/lib/sane/wherever, renamed the existing genesys file that was
already there (from the 1.0.18 installation from the Centos packages),
edited genesys.conf (to add the right USB identifiers for the scanner)
then changed the udev rule as you showed. 

Rebooted, and voila!

All I need to be careful of now, I think, is to not allow sane package
updates to be applied by yum, unless it gets updated to 1.0.22, and I
don't imagine that will  happen within the 5.x series.

thanks again, that was a lot easier than messing around with trying to
build everything and install it in /usr/local.

Fred

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