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On Monday 12 May 2003 10:32 am, Jon Lawrence wrote: > 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 > Thanks Jon. I'll give that a try. to me this is a good example of what LUGs are all about. Keith -- SuSE 8.0 Linux on 1.2GHz AMD Athlon/PCChips 810LMR\nwith 384MB RAM and 20GB Maxtor HD using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.