On 1/4/08, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happy New Year Folks, > > I got an Epson Perfection V500 PHOTO scanner for Xmas. It is not listed on > the SANE web site (I've filled out "the form for adding an unsupported > device".) and xsane, under debian 4.0, can't find it. > > So I thought I'd try vuescan. I downloaded vuesca84.tgz, unpacked it and > copied the executable file vuescan to /usr/local/bin. When I enter > "vuescan" in a terminal, as either robin or su, I get > > "vuescan: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory" > > But libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 is in /usr/lib. I've tried copying > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 to /lib, /usr/lib32, /usr/local/lib, and /usr/share > but got the same response. > > I emailed Ed Hamrick (the developer of vuescan) but his reply was > "Unfortunately, I don't know much about Linux libraries." > > I'd appreciate any advice.
Possible short term solution: Find a friend who has a windows computer (if you don't have one) and also wants a bunch of photos scanned. Use their computer to scan both your photos and theirs. Apply beer and pizza as necessary. Alternately, FutureShop's liberal 7 day return policy can be useful in situations like this "I just wanted to see if it would work with my scanner..." ;-) This doesn't help getting it to work with Linux, but sometimes I find that to be more of a hassle than it's worth (same goes for getting some things working on Windows that work better elsewhere.) -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
