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

[David Kuntadi]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:47 AM, john d. herron
<paradox.herron at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> But running ./vuescan from the bash console from /opt/VueScan still
> complains:
> john at john-desktop:/opt/VueScan$ ./vuescan
> ./vuescan: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found
> (required by ./vuescan)
> ./vuescan: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found
> (required by ./vuescan)
>
> Friends, I've followed all of your suggestions, but I'm still no closer to
> getting vuescan working.
> Is there anything else I can or ought to do to get this thing to work?

If sudo apt-get install libstdc++6 did not help, it looks like the
libstdc++6 is newer than vueScan expect. The default kubuntu 9.04 is
libstdc++.so.6.0.10 whereas Vuescan expecting libstdc++.so.6.0.9

You should try to download and copy older libstdc++6 manually:

1. Download the packge from below according to your kubuntu architecture:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libstdc++6

2. Extract libstdc++.so.6.0.9 from that package and put it on /usr/local/lib
3. sudo mv  /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6  /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.original
4. make a new symlink to older libstdc++6:
    cd  /usr/lib/
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.9 libstdc++.so.6

Hopefully the above steps get you closer.
DK