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@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ make install man sane +Pre-built binaries: +=================== + +In addition to versions included in releases, some platforms have more current versions available. + +Ubuntu PPA https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release + +sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release +sudo apt update +apt install libsane libsane-common sane-utils + Prerequisites ============= @@ -134,10 +145,12 @@ configure options, there are the following SANE specific options: Means, that some backends will use a lockfile for allowing multiple access to one scanner. This is useful, i.e. one frontend is scanning the button status and another one will scan. The path to the lock - files is define by --localstatedir at the configure step and is - $localstatedir/lock/sane. The default group is uucp and can be - changed by using --with-group=newgroup. If you do not want any - backend to use a lockfile, simply use --disable-locking. + files is defined by --localstatedir at the configure step and is + $localstatedir/lock. The default group is uucp and can be changed + by using --with-group=newgroup. If you do not want any backend to + use a lockfile, simply use --disable-locking. + Note: The Plustek backend is currently the only backend that makes + use of this feature. To limit the backends that are compiled, set the variable BACKENDS to the list of backends to compile. The following will limit compiling |