vuescan won't start

Hi Folks, I'm running debian 4.0 (etch) on a PC with an amd64 processor. I downloaded vuesca84.tgz and expanded it to /home/robin/vuesca84 which now includes an executable file vuescan. When I enter "vuescan", as either robin or as su, I get: vuescan: error while loading shared libraries: libus

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Thanks Andrew for the man references. I'll read them carefully before I do anything. And, yes, I will back up! Thanks also to Andrei, Celejar and Doug for the discussion of space needed in /root. My conclusion is that it's better to have a bit too much than a bit too little. Richard

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Thanks for all the comments. Yes, Andrew, you are absolutely correct, I didn't read the output from aptitude carefully enough, partly because I didn't understand what much of it meant. So I'm especially grateful for your tutorial. Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h

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Hi Andrew and Johannes, My reply of a few hours ago had the wrong subject! Sorry for the mix up. No Andrew, /var is not full: there is still 2.4GB free out of 2.9GB. I have pasted the complete output from aptitude below. Johannes, when I log in as root via tty1 and run aptitude I get the out

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Hi Andrew and Johannes, Thanks for you help. No Andrew, /var is not full: there is still 2.4GB free out of 2.9GB. I have pasted the output from aptitude below. Johannes, when I log in as root via tty1 and run aptitude I get the output pasted below. Here is the output copied from aptitude" Er

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Johannes, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got a similar error. This time is said "Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1)" Richard

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w should I respond to this error? Richard Carter

Shut down or leave on?

Hi Folks, Is it better to leave a system running all the time or is it better to shut it down over night, on weekends, holidays etc? In the past I have always shut my Debian system down over night etc for 3 reasons: 1) I put backups on my 80GB external HD which I usually leave shut down even whe