Skanpage crashes in Fedora 42 KDE because of a missing dependency

[geraldosimiao (Geraldo Simião Kutz)]

Problem

Skanpage, a KDE scanning application, crashes in Fedora 42 KDE due to broken dependencies. This happens both in new and (most) upgraded installs, and on a Live image as well.

When Skanpage crashes, you’ll either see a crash report or an SELinux alert:

Cause

Skanpage needs another package (tesseract) to run accordingly. This package is not automatically installed with Skanpage due to a packaging error, and it’s also not present on the KDE install image.

Related Issues

Bugzilla report: #2350549

Solution

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

You can discuss this issue here.

[kparal (Kamil Páral)]

An update to Skanpage (version 25.04.0) has been released to address this problem - it will now install tesseract automatically with it. Just update your system as usual and this problem should be resolved.

[adamwill (Adam Williamson)]

This has since broken again, because skanpage dropped the direct dependency on the basis that tesseract had been fixed, but the tesseract update is still in updates-testing.

I checked the issues raised in the tesseract update seem to have been fixed, so I went ahead and pushed it stable to hopefully address this once again.