Hi Mark, Thanks for the tip. My wife has a windows laptop but I hate to admit to her that linux can't do everything better than windows. I may have to bit that bullet, at least temporarily, if I can't make any progress soon.
Robin On Jan 4, 2008 5:18 PM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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