I have found a container system that works for my Python 2 app

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

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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Chris Green
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