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Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16

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On 2025-11-27 16:34, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-11-26 12:20, grinch wrote:
>>> Can someone please point me in the right direction of how to setup a 
>>> usb (Epson V500) scanner the hard way.
>>>
>>> Cockpit can't do it nor can KDE ,it the last thing I need to be able 
>>> to do to complete my transition to Leap 16.
>>>
>>> It was trivially easy with Yast (r.i.p) in 15.6.
>>
>> Here that nobody hear us, I can say that you can still install Yast; 
>> however, it is not maintained, so if it doesn't work you can not 
>> report a bug.
>>
>> I do not know how to install a scanner the hard way, sorry.
>>
> 
> YaST was one of the main reasons I moved from Slackware to SuSE back 
> around 1997/98.  There are cases now where I'd like YaST to leave config 
> files alone (so I can specify options YaST does not know about) but 
> getting rid of it altogether?

There were always ways that made YaST leave things alone, depending on 
what module was affected. But most often it meant not using that module 
again after the initial config. You could always remove the affected module.

> Maybe it's time to think about moving on, not that I want to.
> I had a look at Kubuntu a few years back and was very happy that my test 
> was on a machine where I did not care about the data, or pretty much 
> anything else.

To me YaST was what made SUSE* different and better. If it is gone, 
nothing locks me here anymore.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 grinch <grinch@sommewhere.com> - 2025-11-26 11:20 +0000
  Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-26 18:03 +0100
    Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 R Daneel Olivaw <Danni@hyperspace.vogon.gov.invalid> - 2025-11-27 16:34 +0100
      Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-27 19:48 +0100
        Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 grinch <grinch@sommewhere.com> - 2025-11-27 19:28 +0000
          Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-28 03:18 +0100
            Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 grinch <grinch@sommewhere.com> - 2025-11-28 19:21 +0000
              Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-28 20:56 +0100
                Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 grinch <grinch@somewhere.net> - 2025-11-29 11:41 +0000
                Re: Setting up a usb scanner in Leap 16 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-11-29 13:22 +0100

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