%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: bdubbs $ $Date: 2015-03-01 20:45:33 -0500 (Sun, 01 Mar 2015) $ XSane XSane is another front end for . It has additional features to improve the image quality and ease of use compared to xscanimage. &lfs77_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &xsane-md5sum; Download size: &xsane-size; Estimated disk space required: &xsane-buildsize; Estimated build time: &xsane-time; XSane Dependencies Required and (back ends) Optional and User Notes: Install XSane by running the following commands: sed -i -e 's/png_ptr->jmpbuf/png_jmpbuf(png_ptr)/' src/xsane-save.c && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make xsanedocdir=/usr/share/doc/xsane-&xsane-version; install && ln -v -s ../../doc/xsane-&xsane-version; /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc A browser of your choice can be used to get inline help, using the following command, as the root user: ln -v -s <browser> /usr/bin/netscape Be sure to replace <browser> with the browser of your choice on your system. Alternatively, if the environment variable BROWSER is set to the browser you want to use, eg, BROWSER="/usr/bin/firefox", the first time you run xsane, it will be recorded in ~/.sane/xsane/xsane.rc. If you wish to change it, edit this file, or remove it, and use the instructions above, so that a new one is created. If GIMP is installed, issue the following command as the root user: ln -v -s /usr/bin/xsane /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/ ln -v -s ../../doc/xsane-&xsane-version; /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc: This symlink is created to ensure that any program that looks for the XSane documentation in the default location will find it, as the documentation is installed in an alternate location specified in the make install command. ln -v -s /usr/bin/xsane /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/: This creates a link in the system-wide GIMP plug-ins directory so that users can access XSane directly from GIMP. GIMP must be available before building XSane for this to work. Alternatively, create the link in ~/.gimp-2.0/plug-ins/ to provide individual user access. man xsane for additional information. Installed Program Installed Libraries Installed Directory xsane None /usr/share/doc/xsane-&xsane-version; and /usr/share/sane/xsane Short Descriptions xsane is a graphical user-interface to control an image acquisition device such as a flatbed scanner. xsane