Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 165751
scanning support missing after installing hplilp
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:11 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I am not sure if this is a bug or not, but I would think that libsane-hpaio should be a dependancy of hplip. I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out why I was getting an error when trying to use sane with my Officejet 7300. Turning debugging on and running scanimage -L showed the missing sane backend. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hplip-0.9.4-1.1 libsane-hpaio-0.9.4-1.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum --enablerepo=updates-testing install hplip 2.Install printer via cups web interface(couldn't get system-config-printer to work for a network printer) 3.Open xsane Actual Results: xsane could not find any devices because hpaio sand backend is missing Expected Results: Should have been able to scan after installing hplip Additional info:
I saw a suggestion on fedora-list that sane-backends should just require libsane-hpaio. Nils, what do you think about making that change for FC5 onwards? The requirement is not a necessity, but this problem comes up frequently enough that it would avoid a lot of problems to just make libsane-hpaio a requirement.
Barring unforeseen improvements in the realm of RPM requirements, this sounds like the sane approach to me (no pun intended).
fixed in sane-backends-1.0.17-12