gscan2pdf in openSuse 11.3

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Hi any and all.

Have upgraded several machines to 11.3 and am loving it, except I am struggling to get gscan2pdf going.

There’s a 1-click in the package search from
Index of /repositories/home:/illuusio/openSUSE_11.3
but things seem to go rapidly downhill as the rpm has a failed dependency for perl-Config-General24.
Have tried installing this separately (only there for factory), but had a chain reaction and eventually tried to accept ignoring a dependency on a specific (old) perl version.

Any suggestions -or ability to contact the maintainer of the repo perhaps?

Better still, is there a nice qt app that works so elegantly? -specifically with wife-proof simplicity for multi-page pdfs.

Thanks for any pointers, Alex

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Does also not work for me!
Some solutions or alternatives?

Greetings

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i tried also to install the “gscan2pdf-0.9.31-1.Suse.noarch.rpm” from the Sourcepage, but it needs to install the “perl(Gtk2::ImageView)” that i cannot find?
From where i can get “perl(Gtk2::ImageView)”?

Greetings

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now i added the “http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_11.3” Repo so i could get the “perl(Gtk2::ImageView)” but now it wants the “perl(Goo::Canvas)” Package, that i could not find under Software search? Someone can help?
Thanks

Greetings

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I’m using 11.2 but have you tried xsane in 11.3, this is what I am using for scanning to pdf.

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gscan2pdf does so much more than xsane…it runs unpaper to remove scan marks…it handles scanning double sided documents via a feeder…letting you just flip the stack and put back in document feeder and knows to scan them in reverse page # order…I didn’t realize upgrading to opensuse 11.3 removed gscan2pdf till I just tried to scan some documents…has anyone located a good version with required dependencies? I tried to install the 11.2 version and played the dependency game till it was asking for perl-forks…and gave up.

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On 2010-08-23 07:06, famewolf wrote:
>
> gscan2pdf does so much more than xsane…it runs unpaper to remove
> scan marks…it handles scanning double sided documents via a
> feeder…letting you just flip the stack and put back in document feeder
> and knows to scan them in reverse page # order…I didn’t realize
> upgrading to opensuse 11.3 removed gscan2pdf till I just tried to scan
> some documents…has anyone located a good version with required
> dependencies? I tried to install the 11.2 version and played the
> dependency game till it was asking for perl-forks…and gave up.

]>
<http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=gscan2pdf&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.3&lang=en&exclude_debug=true>

Or get the source rpm for 11.2 and recompile. Or get the source from above link.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” GM (Elessar))

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Thank you for your reply. Unfortunetly as this original poster mentioned…that one click install requires perl-Config-General24 which is not available for opensuse 11.3 and although webpin finds 3 hits for it in the opensuse 11.2 build service none of those 3 places actually HAS the file even though webpin says they do.

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Hey, original poster here -I only just spotted all the recent activity!

I’ve tried several more things including build from source and the suse files of the latest release (gscan2pdf-0.9.31-1.Suse.noarch.rpm) on the projects sourceforge page
Given that the project author has seen fit to actually provide a suse version, my next step was going to be to contact him (I think), for guidance.

Could I suggest that others here try that version (Browse gscan2pdf Files on SourceForge.net), and report details of failed deps etc back here?

-Alex

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has anybody had any more success with gscan2pdf ?

I have succeeded in getting version 0.9.24-4.1 installed from –

home:smains:mygscah/openSUSE_11.3

It opens to the normal desktop when you start the program, but when you press the scan button it does not scan but instead opens a second desktop and stops responding.

Any Ideas as this remains the best scanner I have used.

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Sadly the solution seems to be downgrade to 11.2 or run a different distro.

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To get gscan2pdf working in openSUSE 11.3:

  • You need to add the illuusio and devel languages perl repositories (clickable in YaST).

  • gscan2pdf will then show in the software manager and will install required dependencies.

  • You then need to install perl-Readonly or else gscan2pdf simply won’t start.

Enjoy!

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I have not tried gscan2pdf (I’ll have to some time). The applications that I use on 11.3 for scanning are xsane and also gimagereader.

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Didn’t work for me, gscan2pdf does show in repository but will not install as still looking for perl-Goo-Canvas.

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Hava a look at the .spec file to find out whom to contact for dependency problems.

https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=gscan2pdf&project=home%3Ailluusio