Scanning app 'vuescan' for Linux - has anyone installed/used it?

[Alvin]

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:40:01 john d. herron wrote:
> Here's what he replied:
> "Hi John,
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't really help with diagnosing problems with
> missing libraries.  There are some tips in the VueScan
> Release Notes.
> Regards, Ed Hamrick"
> 
> In the Release Notes for Linux, two libraries were mentioned that might
> be needed. libstdc++5 and libusb. On this system both were already
> installed. Anyway, I don't see any USB problems: my scanner, an HP
> OfficeJet 6310, has been working with xsane out of the box and is
> supported by Vuescan.
> Kay, do you think there might be any purpose to moving the VueScan
> folder from /home/john to /opt?

Moving VueScan to /opt will not improve your situation. Do it if you want to 
give multiple users access to VueScan or if you don't like software running in 
/home
(on a side note: Your /home partition isn't mounted with 'noexec', is it?)

Check for missing libraries with:
$ ldd ~/VueScan/vuescan