Printer setup with Trisquel mini

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A rejoint: 08/18/2020

On Trisquel, my network printer was easy to install. On Trisquel mini, it was asking me for a driver, and although I had more drivers installed than on Trisquel, it did not work.

I noticed that on Trisquel, when setting up the printer, I had an option to use IPP with DNS-SD (no clue what it means), so I had the idea to search for packages with ipp in the name, on Trisquel and on Trisquel mini. This is how I noticedf that ipp-usb was on my Trisquel system but not on Trisquel mini.

Then I tried installing ipp-usb on Trisquel mini and then I could install the network printer. On Trisquel, "aptitude why ipp-usb" says it is a dependency of trisquel-print-system, but on Trisquel mini, it was not installed.

I understand that Trisquel mini is trying to be smaller than Trisquel, but is it really beneficial not to install this package for Trisquel mini? From a feature perspective, it seems to be like a basic feature that also should be there by default in Trisquel mini.

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A rejoint: 08/18/2020

By the way, the Canon Pixma TS8100 works fine for printing and scanning with Trisquel and Trisquel mini (using xsane).

prospero
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A rejoint: 05/20/2022

I recently noticed that avahi-daemon is not installed by default in Trisquel Mini Aramo:

"Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery".

It is a dependency of ipp-usb, among other things that are installed by default on a Trisquel system but not on a Trisquel Mini system.

Magic Banana

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A rejoint: 07/24/2010

On Trisquel, "aptitude why ipp-usb" says it is a dependency of trisquel-print-system, but on Trisquel mini, it was not installed.

It looks like Trisquel Mini not including the trisquel-print-system is a deliberate choice of the developers.