Author: Stuart Sears Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Xsane 0.991
hantslug@??? wrote: > On Thursday 20 Sep 2007 13:35, Richard Brown wrote:
>> On 20/09/2007, hantslug@??? <hantslug@???> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know which version of SANE is used in Xsane 0.991? The list
>>> of supported devices varies according to version, and "buy one and suck
>>> it and see" could be an expensive method of finding out. :-(
>> xsane will use whatever version of sane-backends you have installed.
>
> Er.. yes, but how do I find out which sane-backends are installed?
which distro are you using?
rpm-based distros:
rpm -q sane-backends
(-qi for more information)
deb-based distros:
dpkg -l libsane
(or libsane-extras)
seems likely to at least give you version numbers, assuming the packages
are installed.
any help?
regards
Stuart
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Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX
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