On 2024-11-08 13:57, Chris Green wrote:
songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote:
Chris Green wrote:
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i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
them.
I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye
within my Debian Bookworm system. I'm looking for something slightly
'lighter weight' than a full-blown virtual machine like virtualbox
though I guess I can use virtualbox if I have to.
the easiest and lightest weight to me is just having
another partition and booting that. no extra layers of
anything needed at all.
No use at all! :-) It's a scanner applet to drive my OKI scanner and
I want the output to end up on my working system where I will use it
in E-Mail or whatever.
can you say what that scanner applet is?
A VirtualBox instance running the old distro would work for me as you
can share files between that an the 'parent' system but it really
seems like overkill for running just one little app/program.
At present the simplest solution for me seems to be to install the old
distro on a low-power consumption system and simply run the scanner
utility via 'ssh -X' so that I can see it on my desktop screen. That
does work OK, the only downside is the small extra bit of power
consumption.
it seems like that right now, but perhaps some poking
around may come up with another way.
I'm still poking! :-)
is the constraint for the applet that it needs python 2?
or?
Basically yes, what makes it impossiblr to migrate to Python3 is that
there is a .so file which is a python package built for Python 2,
otherwise I would be quite happy to convert it all to Python 3.
I am just a novice with Python (migrating from perl, which I have
programmed in for more than 25 years), but wouldn't a Python Virtual
Environment (venv) be just the thing for this? I've been tinkering with
that in pycharm and it seems like it could do what you need.
See https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html for more information.
HTH
Grx HdV
