Epson Scanner Driver

[tranzed]

Hi guys,

Hope some one can help, have installed a fresh copy of Debian 5 on an old IBM laptop T42 and having a few problems with hardware. Epson scanner Perfection 1250.

I have downloaded the iscan-2.10.0 and typed ./configure and all goes well to this point:-

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile

config.status: creating backend/Makefile

config.status: creating doc/Makefile

config.status: creating frontend/Makefile

config.status: creating include/Makefile

config.status: creating intl/Makefile

config.status: WARNING: intl/Makefile.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting

config.status: creating lib/Makefile

config.status: creating non-free/Makefile

config.status: creating po/Makefile.in

config.status: WARNING: po/Makefile.in.in seems to ignore the --datarootdir setting

config.status: creating sanei/Makefile

config.status: creating utils/Makefile

config.status: creating iscan.spec

config.status: creating config.h

config.status: config.h is unchanged

config.status: creating include/sane/config.h

config.status: include/sane/config.h is unchanged

config.status: executing depfiles commands

config.status: executing default-1 commands

config.status: creating po/POTFILES

config.status: creating po/Makefile

=== configuring in libltdl (/home/tranzed/Desktop/Downloads/iscan-2.10.0/libltdl)

configure: WARNING: no configuration information is in libltdl

me-laptop:/home/tranzed/Desktop/Downloads/iscan-2.10.0#



I would be grateful for any help. Thanks

[jdkaye]

Have you installed the sane package? There are no error messages in the config output, only warnings. Have you tryed running make. You may get more information if, indeed, there is a problem.
ciao,
jdk

[tranzed]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, Yes the Sane pagage is installed. I have tried to make but :-
bash: make: command not found is what is printed to screen.

Any ideas?

[jdkaye]

Well there's your answer. You can't compile anything if you don't have make installed. Execute the following command

sudo aptitude install make

and then go back to the folder where your program is untarred and run make.
That should do it unless you're missing other vital packages.
ciao.
jdk

[tranzed]

Thanks for your help so far... guess more is missing. I installed make and now have something else to go wrong:-
me-laptop:/home/tranzed/Desktop/Downloads/iscan-2.10.0# make
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/longdouble.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'. Stop.

The output from make -k
me-laptop:/home/tranzed/Desktop/Downloads/iscan-2.10.0# make -k
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/longdouble.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'.
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/nls.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'.
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/printf-posix.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'.
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/uintmax_t.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'.
make: *** No rule to make target `m4/wchar_t.m4', needed by `Makefile.in'.
make: Failed to remake makefile `Makefile'.
make: Target `all' not remade because of errors.

No rule to make target. What does this mean?

[jdkaye]

I found a site to download the driver and you don't have to compile it. It comes as an rpm. This is the site. Download the rpm file and convert it to a deb using alien. (Install the alien package if you don't have it already). Run the command

sudo alien -k {name of rpm file}

Then install the package using this command.

sudo dpkg -i {name of deb}

Note it only seems to support 32bit systems.
Have fun.
jdk