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.
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.
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.-a 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?
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.
On 2025-11-27 16:34, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:dule.
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 Therefore better. If it is gone,
nothing locks me here anymore.
On 27/11/2025 18:48, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-11-27 16:34, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:dule.
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.
Just installed the latest version of Kubuntu it offers nothing OS leap
16 does not except DEB's rather than RPM's.There is no K "Yast"
The KDE desktop system settings can manage most things but not scanners
it seems.
I will probably build a spare leap 15.6 box and keep it just for
scanning until Leap 16 catches up.
Tried installing Yast on Leap 16 ,it installed no problem-a but nothing actually happed when I tried to run it.>
To me YaST was what made SUSE* different and Therefore better. If it
is gone, nothing locks me here anymore.
My thoughts exactly +1
On 2025-11-27 20:28, grinch wrote:
On 27/11/2025 18:48, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-11-27 16:34, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:dule.
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.
Just installed the latest version of Kubuntu it offers nothing OS leap
16 does not except DEB's rather than RPM's.There is no K "Yast"
The KDE desktop system settings can manage most things but not
scanners it seems.
I will probably build a spare leap 15.6 box and keep it just for
scanning until Leap 16 catches up.
Tried installing Yast on Leap 16 ,it installed no problem-a but nothing
actually happed when I tried to run it.>
You may have got YaST in text mode, so call it from a terminal.
On 28/11/2025 02:18, Carlos E.R. wrote:
You may have got YaST in text mode, so call it from a terminal.
Got Yast working but it cant setup the scanner either.
I am loosing the will to live so have given up on this approach and will
keep a 15.6 box until 16 can setup my scanner. Gives me a good excuse to
buy a new machine . My old one (leap 15.6) is 6.5 years old.
On 2025-11-28 20:21, grinch wrote:
On 28/11/2025 02:18, Carlos E.R. wrote:
You may have got YaST in text mode, so call it from a terminal.
Got Yast working but it cant setup the scanner either.
I am loosing the will to live so have given up on this approach and will
keep a 15.6 box until 16 can setup my scanner. Gives me a good excuse
to buy a new machine . My old one (leap 15.6) is 6.5 years old.
I'm sorry.
There is another method (I myself will not be upgrading to 16.0 for the moment at least). You can install 15.6 to your preferences, then upgrade
to 16.0. Use this tool (you can install it from the repos):
<https://github.com/openSUSE/opensuse-migration-tool>
On 28/11/2025 19:56, Carlos E.R. wrote:
On 2025-11-28 20:21, grinch wrote:
On 28/11/2025 02:18, Carlos E.R. wrote:
You may have got YaST in text mode, so call it from a terminal.
Got Yast working but it cant setup the scanner either.
I am loosing the will to live so have given up on this approach and will >>> keep a 15.6 box until 16 can setup my scanner. Gives me a good excuse
to buy a new machine . My old one (leap 15.6) is 6.5 years old.
I'm sorry.
There is another method (I myself will not be upgrading to 16.0 for
the moment at least). You can install 15.6 to your preferences, then
upgrade to 16.0. Use this tool (you can install it from the repos):
<https://github.com/openSUSE/opensuse-migration-tool>
Thanks for the idea but my method allows me to buy a new machine. I
have been looking for an excuse for 6months.
That assumes there are any in stock as due to the high end chip shortage they are rare at the moment and due to Brexit buying from Europe is expensive.
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