Ubuntu
sane-backends-extras package

Scanning broken with Epson RX585

Bug #570373 reported by Dylan Coakley
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Bug Description

Recently I was asked to help a guy because his scanner was no longer working in newer versions of this package. (1.0.20.1)

 I told him to install libsane-extras from here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libsane-extras

This is because his scanner was previously working with this version of libsane-extras. (1.0.19.11)

More than likely this is a problem with the libsane-extras code and not the packaging. I just thought I would report it to somebody who may be able to pass this information on if needed.

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Dylan Coakley (dylan-coakley) wrote :

He told me it appears that something called "epkowa" is missing in the newer versions of this package.

I downloaded both versions of this package and extracted them.

I found that the newer version was missing these "epkowa" files in the following places:

---
etc/sane.d/epkowa.conf
usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.la
usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1
usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1.0.19
---

I also found that the "lib/udev/40-libsane-extras.rule" file was 1.1kb in the new version and 14.5kb in the old. Seems like alot of functionality was removed...

Seems the problem is with the package afterall.

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westbywest (westbywest) wrote :

I can also confirm that installing libsane-extras on my machine running Karmic has caused my Epson V200 scanner to stop working.

The same *epkowa* files listed in Dylan's comment above were removed from my machine when I installed current version of libsane-extras from (I think) karmic-backports.

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