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

[Muzer]

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Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:40:01 john d. herron wrote:
>> Kay, do you think there might be any purpose to moving the
>>  VueScan folder from /home/john to /opt?
> 
> Absolutely not. I just keep it in /opt (which on my system has its 
> own partition) together with things like Google Chrome, Opera, 
> Picasa and such non-Kubuntu stuff in order to avoid re-installing 
> when upgrading to the next Kubuntu version. Just like I keep /home 
> on its own partition. You're perfectly able to run it from anywhere, 
> but on a multi-user box I would put Vuescan somewhere outside the 
> individual users accounts, for example /Vuescan.

It's possible you might want to move it to /opt if it complains about
missing libraries or files - some paths might be hardcoded for /opt
(which is bad practice but still possible).

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