* Originally by: Gerrit Kuehn (2:240/12), 24 Jul 21 08:38.

Hello Dan!

24 Jul 21 08:38, Gerrit Kuehn wrote to Dan Clough:

 GK> The repository management allows to use standard Debian packages 
 GK> as well as MX-provided things and flatpaks. I didn't really use the 
 GK> latter before, but it had stuff like discord and zoom available, so I 
 GK> didn't have to download and install these manually.

As a follow-up: We have several HP printers here, so installing hplip is the way to go. We have one old MFP among these that requires the additional hplip binary plugin to allow scanning over network (which is a very nice feature we rely on heavily). This plugin didn't install properly, but that's probably more HP's fault (hp-setup needs to install it). Actually, I have never been able to get it installed without any manual interaction on any system I tried (be it FreeBSD, Gentoo, Sabayon, MX or whatever). On the bright side, the "usual" tricks worked here, too, so I could just use the commandline to get everything going. Now I have both xsane and HP's simple scanner tool using the MFP scanner over the network.


Regards,
Gerrit

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