Chris Green wrote: > Thanks to various people here helping me to understand a bit more about > containers and some searching and experimentation I now have a > container to run my little Python 2 scanner app within Debian 12. > > It's distrobox which is a sort of wrapper for podman and gives one an > easy to use interface for installing various linux distros in > containers. > > I have used it to create a instance of ubuntu 18.04 on my Debian 12 > desktop system. My scanner driver (which comes as a .deb) installed > OK and with the addition of some packages from ubuntu 18.04 it runs > without any problem. > > The nice thing about the distrobox container is that you can run a > program in it that is in your normal $HOME environment of the parent > system. It's only all the libraries and support files that are > 'virtualised'. > > Also, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2029 so I have a few years when > it should continue to 'just work'. :-)
ah, ok! :) songbird
