[GTALUG] CZUR scanners under Linux

We bought a CZUR ET24 Pro. Quite a bit more expensive than other models. It claimed that it would support Linux. I installed the supplied-to-me RPM using "rpm --force". It seems to work. (I only scanned the junk on the desktop where the scanning mat

Re: [GTALUG] CZUR scanners (was Borked Python setup, please help)

On 2022-11-09 16:00, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 12:04:44PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: I recently bought a scanner from CZUR because it was to support Linux. Well, they only supplied a binary .deb package. [snip] This solution is going to suffer

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

The OS has python needs and your app has its own. It's usually best to keep those things independent to avoid dependency conflicts. Using something like virtualenv or pyenv to create a separate python environment and then using the pip in it to install dependencies works well. --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 12:04:44PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > If I had to guess, Evan's problem (the one that started this thread) stems > from a software package that hasn't been updated in some time and no > longer matches what the distro provides. > > Packages bit-rot. One

Re: [GTALUG] Borked Python setup, please help

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk | Well as far as I can tell every major linux distribution has got it right, | and the issue mainly seems to happen on windows where apparently people | can't get anything right. If I had to guess, Evan's problem (the one that started this thread) stems from a