Linux
Extra packages
The following are extra packages I’ve ended up installing on my Linux (Fedora Core 6) server. It’s a good idea to keep track of these so in the future if I re-install Linux I don’t have to spend days trying to figure out what packages I’m missing.
| mpd | Music Player Daemon |
| mpc | Music Player Daemon command line |
| php-gd | GD graphics lib for PHP |
| gd-devel | GD graphics lib dev files |
| madplay | MP3 playback program |
| libmad | MP3 playback library |
| libmad-devel | MP3 playback library dev files |
| libid3tag | MP3 tagging library |
| libid3tag-devel | MP3 tagging library dev files |
| flac123 | FLAC playback program |
| libdvdread | Was a prerequisite for something, don’t remember what |
| php-pear | Pear for PHP |
| sane-backends | SANE |
| sane-backends-libs | SANE |
| libsane-hpaio | SANE driver for HP All-In-One |
| xinetd | Needed for SANE |
SANE
SANE is an open source scanner API for Linux. I use it with my HP OfficeJet 7310 All-In-One.
| –batch | Scan multiple pages from the automatic document feeder (ADF). |
| –batch-count | Due to a bug in the HPAIO driver, we need to specify how many pages to scan or it will go on forever. |
| –mode gray | Since I’m mainly scanning text documents. |
| –resolution 150 | What DPI setting to scan at. |
| -y 280 | Only scan 280mm (11″) letter size, not legal size. |
scanimage –batch –batch-count 5 –mode gray –resolution 150 -y 280
After scanning, I like to convert the PNM files to PDF as follows:
pnmtops out1.pnm > out1.ps
ps2pdf14 out1.ps
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