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

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On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote:

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! :)

???

What I know about Ubuntu:
- Debian based
- Each April and October a release
- The April release of even years, as 2024, 2022 2020 and 2018
have Long Time Support
- LTS is five years


Anyone to back up the above "Ubuntu 18.04 is support until 2029"?

songbird

Groeten
Geert Stappers
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Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> wrote:

On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 08:02:43AM -0500, songbird wrote:

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! :)

???

What I know about Ubuntu:
- Debian based
- Each April and October a release
- The April release of even years, as 2024, 2022 2020 and 2018
have Long Time Support
- LTS is five years

Anyone to back up the above "Ubuntu 18.04 is support until 2029"?

It's if you go for Ubuntu Pro or whatever it's called. It's a no cost
option for single/small users and gives 10 Years support for Ubuntu
releases. Presumably the 2029 (which I read while doing an apt of
some sort) is 2018 + ten years + a few months.

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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'. :-)

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