[CentOS] Newer SANE packages for 5.9 ??

Fri Mar 1 01:54:21 UTC 2013
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

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.

Thanks to both Akemi and to Frank!

Yakemi's advice worked on Centos 5, and now that I've FINALLY upgraded
to 6.x, Frank's RPMS work fine for me too.

Ain't community support just grand? :)

Fred

> 
> 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"
> 
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2011-July/028852.html
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Akemi
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