This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box.

I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3
without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number of
problems, most of which I have resolved. (Getting X working properly
was, indeed, a case of getting a real (NVIDIA) graphics card instead of
relying on the onboard Sis graphics.) The only problem that remains,
that I know of, is getting my scanner to work.


I have an Epson CX7400 All-In-One. The printer works fine and it works
as a stand alone copier. The scanner is giving me trouble. I can't
install sane. Sane depends on libsane-extras and it won't install
because it can not overwrite /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf which, in Etch came
from iscan which was installed from an .rpm using alien. I have purged
the iscan package, but the problem remains. The file is still there. I
have manually rm'd the file. It is no longer there. But I still get
the error when I try to install libsane-extras. It still seems to think
that the file is there, even though the package has been purged and the
file deleted.


How can I get sane to install and my scanner functioning?

Please help.


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Marc Shapiro wrote:

This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box.

I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3
without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number of
problems, most of which I have resolved. (Getting X working properly
was, indeed, a case of getting a real (NVIDIA) graphics card instead of
relying on the onboard Sis graphics.) The only problem that remains,
that I know of, is getting my scanner to work.


I have an Epson CX7400 All-In-One. The printer works fine and it works
as a stand alone copier. The scanner is giving me trouble. I can't
install sane. Sane depends on libsane-extras and it won't install
because it can not overwrite /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf which, in Etch came
from iscan which was installed from an .rpm using alien. I have purged
the iscan package, but the problem remains. The file is still there. I
have manually rm'd the file. It is no longer there. But I still get
the error when I try to install libsane-extras. It still seems to think
that the file is there, even though the package has been purged and the
file deleted.


How can I get sane to install and my scanner functioning?

Please help.


Further update. It appears that when I tried to purge the iscan package
it failed to purge. That is why the file was still there. Now, I have
deleted the file, but the package is still installed. I can't get it to
purge and I can't install sane.


HELP!

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On 02/04/2009 10:35 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:

Marc Shapiro wrote:

This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box.

I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3
without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number
of problems, most of which I have resolved. (Getting X working
properly was, indeed, a case of getting a real (NVIDIA) graphics card
instead of relying on the onboard Sis graphics.) The only problem
that remains, that I know of, is getting my scanner to work.


I have an Epson CX7400 All-In-One. The printer works fine and it
works as a stand alone copier. The scanner is giving me trouble. I
can't install sane. Sane depends on libsane-extras and it won't
install because it can not overwrite /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf which, in
Etch came from iscan which was installed from an .rpm using alien. I
have purged the iscan package, but the problem remains. The file is
still there. I have manually rm'd the file. It is no longer there.
But I still get the error when I try to install libsane-extras. It
still seems to think that the file is there, even though the package
has been purged and the file deleted.


How can I get sane to install and my scanner functioning?

Please help.


Further update. It appears that when I tried to purge the iscan package
it failed to purge.


And the error message?

That is why the file was still there. Now, I have
deleted the file, but the package is still installed. I can't get it to
purge and I can't install sane.


HELP!




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On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:35:03PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> This does NOT seem to be a bug. It is a problem ON MY box.
>>
>> I recently upgraded from Etch to Lenny so that I could get Firefox3
>> without going through all of the library hoops. I have had a number of

BTW, you could have just downloaded a nightly build of firefox (already
compiled), and ran it with ./firefox
and then linked alacarte or something to your binary... That's what I do
on lenny

>> I have an Epson CX7400 All-In-One. The printer works fine and it works
>> as a stand alone copier. The scanner is giving me trouble. I can't
>> install sane. Sane depends on libsane-extras and it won't install
>> because it can not overwrite /etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf which, in Etch
>> came from iscan which was installed from an .rpm using alien. I have
>> purged the iscan package, but the problem remains. The file is still
>> there. I have manually rm'd the file. It is no longer there. But I
>> still get the error when I try to install libsane-extras. It still
>> seems to think that the file is there, even though the package has been
>> purged and the file deleted.
>>

uh, probably a dumb question, but did u try aptitude install -f

>> How can I get sane to install and my scanner functioning?
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>>
> Further update. It appears that when I tried to purge the iscan package
> it failed to purge. That is why the file was still there. Now, I have
> deleted the file, but the package is still installed. I can't get it to
> purge and I can't install sane.
>
> HELP!

hmmm, dpkg -r I dunno just a suggestion... delete the binaries, wait no,
that could be bad if the packaging system doesn't know about it...


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