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On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 00:32, Keith Abraham wrote: > I've been trying Apt4rpm via Synaptic but it won't let > me download because of a "broken" Sane scanner > package. > > The Sane package isn't really broken (it works fine). > It just isn't on the rpm database because the only > backend I could find for my scanner was in source code. > > Telling Synaptic to keep the "broken package" still won't > let me proceed and there's no man page for apt4rpm. > > Anyone know how to get apt4rpm to realise Sane exists? > > Keith I use a program called checkinstall (http://checkinstall.izto.org) (when installing from source. Instead of issuing 'make install' you use 'checkinstall -R' This then generates an rpm and installs it thus keeping your rpm db up to date. HTH Jon Lawrence -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.