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 can do things to reduce this effect but it can > hardly be eliminated. > > Sometimes a package is smart enough to refuse to install when its > requrements are not met. But users aren't happy. How many screw-heads > have been mangled my impatient users with to wrong screwdriver? > > Speaking of bit-rot, ... > > I recently bought a scanner from CZUR because it was to support Linux. > Well, they only supplied a binary .deb package. This is a problem: > - .deb won't work on my Fedora system > - "alien" won't turn it into a .rpm > - after a few queries, CZUR support sent me an RPM > - the RPM elicits error from dnf on my system > - CZUR support says to use "dnf --force". I haven't tried yet. > > This solution is going to suffer bit-rot. It was a mistake thinking that > this scanner supports Linux in a meaningful way.
I see people claiming many CZUR scaners are just UVC devices, and that there exists programs that can capture from that, like guvcview and a few others. It strangely does sound like it is actually more of a video camera than a scanner. Maybe your model is something else? -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
