New Guix Version and printer

New Guix Version and printer

[Gottfried]

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Hello Guixers,

if I install Guix 1.3.0 on a laptop, and it is without a printer installed,
will then be in future when the next Guix Version will arrive, and the 
printer is then included,
automatically through updating the printer be installed?

Or should I wait until the next Guix Version will be available, and 
install then Guix System with printer included?

Do we know approximately when the next Guix Version will be available?

I want to know that, because I convinced somebody to use Guix and may be 
  I will buy for him a laptop (with Guix System installed), but I am not 
sure if he is able to install a printer (in the beginning of using Guix).

Thanks for your answers.

Gottfried

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Re: New Guix Version and printer

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

Am Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 12:14:48PM +0000 schrieb Gottfried:
> if I install Guix 1.3.0 on a laptop, and it is without a printer installed,
> will then be in future when the next Guix Version will arrive, and the
> printer is then included,
> automatically through updating the printer be installed?

automatically no - you may have to add the corresponding lines to the
OS definition, something such as
            (service cups-service-type
                     (cups-configuration
                       (web-interface? #t)
                       (extensions (list cups-filters hplip-minimal))))
and then reconfigure, then use the CUPS web interface to install the
printer.

Do you mean that your friend has a printer that is currently not
supported by hplip-minimal, but will be supported soon? (Notice that
this is less a question of Guix, but rather of the availability of free
drivers.)

Andreas

Re: New Guix Version and printer

[(]

FYI, the versions don't really mean anything. When a version is
released, we create a new stable disk image, but you aren't supposed to
use that version normally; it's only for installation purposes. Guix is
a rolling distro, so you're supposed to track master (which is what
`guix pull` does; it fetches the latest master commit and upgrades your
Guix installation to it). This is why we recommend that you `guix pull`
and then `guix system reconfigure` immediately after rebooting into the
newly installed OS.

Re: New Guix Version and printer

[Gottfried]

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Hello,


> Do you mean that your friend has a printer that is currently not
>> supported by hplip-minimal, but will be supported soon? (Notice that
>> this is less a question of Guix, but rather of the availability of free
>> drivers.)

No, that is not my question. At the moment he uses Linux Mint and I 
don't know how much he is able and has time to learn to configure Guix. 
So I want to inform myself beforehand in order to take the right 
decisions and help him to get Guix working on a new laptop.

Gottfried

Am 19.06.22 um 14:26 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 12:14:48PM +0000 schrieb Gottfried:
>> if I install Guix 1.3.0 on a laptop, and it is without a printer installed,
>> will then be in future when the next Guix Version will arrive, and the
>> printer is then included,
>> automatically through updating the printer be installed?
> 
> automatically no - you may have to add the corresponding lines to the
> OS definition, something such as
>              (service cups-service-type
>                       (cups-configuration
>                         (web-interface? #t)
>                         (extensions (list cups-filters hplip-minimal))))
> and then reconfigure, then use the CUPS web interface to install the
> printer.
> 
> Do you mean that your friend has a printer that is currently not
> supported by hplip-minimal, but will be supported soon? (Notice that
> this is less a question of Guix, but rather of the availability of free
> drivers.)
> 
> Andreas
> 


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Re: New Guix Version and printer

[(]

On Sun Jun 19, 2022 at 7:13 PM BST, Gottfried wrote:
> No, that is not my question. At the moment he uses Linux Mint and I 
> don't know how much he is able and has time to learn to configure Guix. 
> So I want to inform myself beforehand in order to take the right 
> decisions and help him to get Guix working on a new laptop.

Well, I'd say if they aren't willing or can't find the time to learn
Guix, it might not be the right distro for them. Guix is all about
configuring things :)