To have to install a ton of junk just to use the scanner function of my HP PSC1210 all in one?
I have 1 lousy document to scan and don’t want to have to install a ton of junk just to scan one thing and then get rid of it all. I used to love openSUSE above all the other distros… now I’m starting to hate it so much.
Moving to Chit-Chat as this post is not a request for assistance.
Moved from the Applications help forum.
You could use Windows, and have several tons of junk installed.
You don’t have to “get rid of it all” afterwards. Just leave the installed stuff there. When it isn’t running, it isn’t causing any problems unless you are really tight on disk space.
If you know exactly what you need, why not just install those minimal utilities?
Since you didn’t describe what you installed, i Can’t speculate what the “ton of junk” you’re referring to is.
In fact, nowadays many scanners are completely self-sufficient so you can operate using buttons on the scanner, then send the image to your computer by some standard transport. If this is possible, then you don’t need to install and run any scanner software on your openSUSE (or any other OS for that matter).
TSU
I don’t know what it was either, some Hewlitt Packard something… hplip or something like that.
I don’t want to have it installed just to use the scanner one time and that’s it. The whole HP junk unit is going to e-waste and it will eventually be replaced with a Lexmark.
Last time I had Ubuntu installed it did not have me install all that HP garbage just to use the scanner. I simply plugged it in, powered it on and was able to press the ‘scan’ button on the unit and it just scanned.
I won’t use Windows any longer because I am against capitalism and won’t use an OS that spies on it’s users.
Then perhaps the HPLIP packages were already installed. A quick search online for the PSC 1210 chipset details returned: 03f0:2f11, and SANE does not appear to support this chipset directly. The necessary chipset support comes via HPLIP using the ‘hpaio’ backend.
If you want help or assistance, a different tone might be the first step. And please note that political debates are not allowed, as per T&C.
Scan one or hundred documents makes no difference.
The same “junk” that made you’re scanner work on openSUSE is also installed in Ubuntu.
Hardware don’t work magically on Linux!
not even on openSUSE, the people behind this distro are good, but not that good 
The frustration perhaps comes from the fact that hplip-sane backend package requires hplip-hpijs for some reason, and that one in turn not only provides tons of print-related stuff, but also requires CUPS and suggests the entire HPLIP suite. Indeed, it is sad enough to install a small console utility, for example, and discover that it brought several language interpreters and a half of Gnome toolset with it on an otherwise text-only machine.
That argument beats everything right? “Well you could install Windows, then you really are stupid!” I would love to know how many Linux users secretly use Windows, but claim to hate it, and how many OpenBSD users secretly use Ubuntu, but claim to hate it.