Title: Why isn't Linux desktops installing the hw support packages automatically?
-Tags: english,
+Tags: english, debian
Date: 2013-01-09 09:20
<p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
automatically install the python-nxt, nbc and t2n packages I need to
talk to it. When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
yubikey-personalization package. The information required to do this
-is available, but no-one pulled all the pieces together yet.
+is available, but no-one pulled all the pieces together yet.</p>
<p>Many years ago, I proposed to use the discover subsystem to
implement this. The idea is fairly simple:
<li>Show a message to the user proposing to install the discovered
package, and make it easy to install it.</li>
-</li>
+</ul>
<p>I am not sure what the best way to implement this is, but my
initial idea was to use dbus events to discover new hardware, the
<p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
desktop notification to show up:</p>
-<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png">
+<p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
<p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to install the
proposed packages need to be implemented too.</p>