I bought a Brother all-in-one (MFC-240C) printer, fax and scanner. The scanner doesn't work out of the box on Linux, but Brother provides drivers for some popular distributions on their website.<br />
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Obviously you can't install the RPMs, and compiling brscan2 from source (see the Brother Linux scanner driver page, http://solutions.brother.com/linux/sol/printer/linux/sane_drivers.html ) you get something like this:<pre>sh makepackage 2  d

Version = 0.2.4
Relese Number = 0

makepackage: line 84: epm: command not found
mv: cannot stat `linux-2.6-intel/brscan2-0.2.4-linux-2.6-intel.deb': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [brscan2] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrei/temp/brscan-src-0.2.4/brscan/mk_package'
make: *** [brscan2] Error 2</pre> This is what you need to do to get the scanner working on Slackware:<br />
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Get a copy of alien ( http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ ). Extract it, compile it, and install it. Then run (as root)<pre>alien -c -t brscan2-0.2.4-0.i386.rpm</pre>That will make a .tgz package of the stuff from the RPM. Then install it using <code>installpkg brscan2-0.2.4.tgz</code><br />
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That's it - the scanner will work now.<br />
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Thanks to Brian from the linuxpackages.net forums for giving me this solution.<br />