Trying to repair broken xsane

[David Ryder]

Thank you Hew, that solved it.

Many thanks,
David

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:40 +1100, Hew McLachlan wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> The application immediately closing sounds like a crash; please look in
> /var/crash for a crash report to submit so we can look into fixing this bug.
> 
> If you have a broken configuration, try removing/renaming ~/.sane .
> 
> Regards,
> Hew McLachlan
> 
> David Ryder wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Hardy 8.04 AMD64
> >
> > In trying to do the procedure from this link:
> >
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=804784&goto=newpost
> >
> > I have broken xsane. When I open it, the preview window comes up and
> > immediately closes.
> >
> > I have tried uninstalling xsane and reinstalling it through synaptic but
> > obviously there are files / libraries that are now wrong or broken.
> >
> > How do I completely uninstall and reinstall xsane? I would rather not do
> > a complete reinstall for obvious reasons :-(
> >
> > David
> >