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I know this post is old but I just ran into the same problem and this is the first thing that pops up when you google it, so:

I managed to solve it for my system (OpenSUSE 12.2, 64bit). It seems that BioImage Suit looks for libhistory5 while only libhistory6 is available under this OS. The history lib is essential and some version WILL be installed on your system. The solution is to add a symlink that points programs to the right place. (At least this worked for me in this case, no guarantees here.)

To do this:
1) Find the version that is installed by searching /lib/ (for 32bit)  or /lib64/ for it:
find /lib64/ -name libhist*

This will return something like:
/lib64/libhistory.so.6
/lib64/libhistory.so.6.2

2) Fix it with a symlink:
sudo ln -s /lib64/libhistory.so.6 /lib64/libhistory.so.5

Then run BioImage Suite.