Hello,
I'm new to Debian (and fairly new to the Debian world, I came from the RPM world).
I purchased a new desktop computer, and I installed Debian Lenny on it. The reason I'm using Lenny instead of Etch is because my sound card was not recognized and I couldn't get it to work on Etch. When I upgraded to Lenny, it works perfectly out of the box.
Anyway, I'm having trouble getting my Epson V100 photo scanner to work. I went to the Avasys website for the Epson scanners, downloaded the two .rpm files, and converted them to .debs using alien.
However, I'm running into dependency issues in Lenny (which may not be present in Etch based on what I read). When I run dpkg --force-overwrite -i iscan-2.x.x.rpm I get errors that look like the following:
root@3[iscan-2.4.0-0.c2]# dpkg --force-overwrite -i ./iscan_2.4.0-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 110717 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking iscan (from ./iscan_2.4.0-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.la', which is also in package libsane-extras
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-epkowa.so.1', which is also in package libsane-extras
The conflict is with libsane-extras, so according to many posts, the solution is supposed to be to remove libsane-extras. This does not work on Lenny. libsane-extras depends on libsane plus about 10 other packages including KDE. libsane depends on libsane-extras, so it is impossible (so it seems) to have one and not the other.
Has anyone figured out how to install the Epson scanner drivers on Lenny? Does anyone have an Epson scanner that they successfully got to work on Lenny?
So far everything else is working great on Lenny and I'm loving it. The only hurdle right now is the scanner. Any help would be greatly appreciated.