songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > songbird <songb...@anthive.com> wrote: > >> Chris Green wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> 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. -- Chris Green ยท
