stumbling over installing scanner

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#1

we successfully (and from memory, uneventfully) installed a CanoScan N650U scanner on 10.2 but we have installed 11.0 so need to repeat;

I need to install what is called the plustek backend; plustek-usb-0.52-3.tar.gz

so downloaded it, and tar -zxvf plustek-usb-0.52-3.tar.gz and it unpacked;

I then have
backend (dir)
sane-plustek.5_1.html
doc (dir)
sane-plustek.5_2.html
sane-plustek.5.html

the site Plustek backend Page

advises

Now do the ./configure step…
Especially for SuSE with a preinstalled SANE-RPM:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info

Then do the make step and after that as root user perform the make install
step.

I cannot figure out to what to apply the command

./configure

if I cd (dir) backend and ls I get: /backend> ls
plustek.c plustek-usbcal.c plustek-usbhw.c plustek-usbscan.c
plustek.conf.in plustek-usbcalfile.c plustek-usbimg.c plustek-usbshading.c
plustek.h plustek-usbdevs.c plustek-usbio.c
plustek-usb.c plustek-usb.h plustek-usbmap.c

any help in my moment of befuddlement would be appreciated;

I downloaded an excellent programme called sane-troubleshoot and ran it; it was happy with sane, and agreed it was the lack of plustek that was the problem

#2

Hi
You need to unpack the plustek file in the sane (download the
source) directory, then run the command you quoted in the sane
directory.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
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#3

sorry: I can’t figure out your phrase:

You need to unpack the plustek file in the sane (download the
source) directory,

#4

Hi
Did you read the Plustek-USB.txt in doc/plustek?

Read from “Let’s go:” You need to unpack (unzip) the plustek files into
the sane-backends-1.0.9 directory where ever you unpacked that…

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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up 4 days 5:22, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.16
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#5

the command ‘./configure’ means ‘execute the file named configure
in the current directory’.

So, you find the file named ‘configure’, go into that directory
(with ‘cd’ command), and then type:
./configure

[you then do all the remaining cmds while in that same directory,
such as ‘make’. When you do the command ‘make install’,
you must be root, aka super-user, so you first need to do ‘su’
to become super-user]

If in doubt, look for files named README or INSTALL, etc
which will contain the product-specific commands needed.
[Some products do NOT have a ‘configure’ command file.]

#6

thanks; sadly I thought to use YaST to download the various SANE packages, and when I use the Gnome search function, to find where YaST has put them … I see 20 (message?) files ending in .mo … so rather struggling to see where core sane is …

it may seem as though I did not read the read.e instructions!! but I did …

our previous version of 10.2 suse had xsane preinstalled; somehow, we must have run the plustek …

anyway …

I guess:

  1. either use YaST to uninstall all the SANE components, and then instead download the sane-backends-1.0.9.tar.gz (thus securing a sane-backends directory into which to unpack the plustek)

  2. try to figure out where the key sane component is: eg I can see xsane and sane-config are in usr/bin; any advice on this would be very kind

#7

Hi
If you download the sane-backend and at least run the configure and
make parts, then you may be able to figure out where the installed
plustek files go… and just copy them over…?

Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 4 days 6:33, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.18, 0.18
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#8

Hi
Just had a look in /usr/share/doc/packages/sane-backends/plustek and
the backend is already there? Read the document “Plustek-USB.txt” the
only reason to build the drive is if it’s a parallel device.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 4 days 6:49, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.14, 0.16
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#9

can’t things be hard sometimes?

elected to use YaST to delete all SANE and xsane entries;

downloaded sane-backends-1.0.9.tar.gz into downloads folder; (realised I had not created a separate sane folder);

ran tar -zxvf sane-backends-1.0.9.tar.gz

and then ran ./configure

before I realised the sane instructions were to firstly do:

tar -zxvf plustek-usb-0.52-3.tar.gz

(I had however copied it into the sane-backends directory at least)

so I did:
tar -zxvf plustek-usb-0.52-3.tar.gz

and then (having hoped I had made amends) I tried to do: make (in the sane-backends directory) and received the answer

command not found

I was acting as user: in a terminal I get:

pdc@linux-37a8:~> locate make
bash: locate: command not found
pdc@linux-37a8:~>

so again, grateful for comments; rather concerned that various commands I am used to; are saying “Command not found”

#10

Hi
That’s because you are using the ‘development’ tools which by default
are not installed… Look in YaST and the patterns. At a minimum you
need the ‘Base Development’ installed. I use Base, C/C++, RPM Build and
Kernel.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 4 days 7:22, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.06, 0.02
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#11

thank you for this helpful post Malcolm; we had tried the liveCD as an initial install; and I wondered how the deficiency of packages would affect us; I will now follow your pointer, and download various of the files you mention;

in the meanwhile, a google search had pinpointed that I was missing GNU make; I downloaded that, and able to make and make install but xsane (that we then set up with YaST) does not yet find the scanner; i will pursue that later;

#12

Hi
I think the live CD is good to find out a) if you like openSUSE and b)
an overview of how it works with your computer hardware. I do recommend
you look at the full DVD or at least a network install to ensure you
get everything you need.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.11-0.1-default
up 4 days 8:22, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.15, 0.22
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

#13

hmmmmmmmmmmmm … yes

I had rather hoped it would flow from CD to drag the rest down on the wire; but … hmmmm …

we have run 9.3 and 10.2 from DVD installs;

rather than get the DVD, with broadband, we thought to try the CD;

looking at the network install, it ain’t just straightforward;

I could download the DVD and burn the iso image;

whether I upgrade or fresh install I guess is a matter of opinion