darethehair:

Sorry, what I meant to say was that ./gphoto2 only ran properly when run from the /usr/local/bin, running gphoto2 from anywhere else in terminal fails. I think this means that $PATH isn't set correctly, but not entirely sure...

That error that I got was looking for libgphoto2.so.2, which definitely resides in /usr/local/lib but gphoto2 can't seem to find it. Running gphoto2-config --prefix=/usr/local/lib sounded hopeful, as that changes the libgphoto2 prefix, but got the same error after running that.

anidel:
Thanks for that quick guide. I'm looking at setting up scratchbox to port some apps, so that should definitely come in handy.