On Tuesday 16 August 2016 13:49:48 Brian wrote: > On Tue 16 Aug 2016 at 12:57:50 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Monday 15 August 2016 14:25:58 Brian wrote: > > > A good guide to backporting is at > > > > > > > > > https://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15/howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ > > > > > > A deb-src line in sources.list for unstable is needed to do > > > > > > apt-get source libsane-common/unstable > > > > > > Then > > > > > > apt-get build-deps libsane-common/unstable > > > > > > should get the dependencies from stable to build libsane-common and > > > libsane. > > > > I have got stuck. Only slightly further on than I had already got stuck. > > (apt-get said it wasn't downloading what I had already downloaded!) > > > > root@Eros:/home/lisi/Sane-Files# apt-get build-deps > > libsane-common/testing E: Invalid operation build-deps > > Mea culpa. Please see the apt-get manual: build-dep (no "s").
Thanks, both. :-) Everything now built, though there was an error at the end: Now running lintian... warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root privileges! W: libsane: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libsane1 N: 2 tags overridden (1 error, 1 warning) Finished running lintian. root@Eros:/home/lisi/Sane-Files/sane-backends-1.0.25# And although sane-find-scanner continued to be able to see the scanner, scanimage -L continues determinedly not to see it. The Canon LiDE 220 is explicitly mentioned as being supported in the file sane-genesys.5, which is in /etc/sane.d So it is there. Somewhere. But not being found. There is a lot of gumph there from my various efforts, and I am afraid of just deleting anything because I don't know what should be there! I haven't googled much yet. My husband is asking why I don't just upgrade to Stretch. Good question!! But this should be soluble reasonably easily. Lisi
