From: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New Guix Version and printer
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 18:13:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2bc1310-903f-bb03-ea96-d6e064fe5d61@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yq8V8UCltfycNtJU@jurong>
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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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2022-06-19 12:14 New Guix Version and printer Gottfried
2022-06-19 12:26 ` Andreas Enge
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