Installing Printer requires password, then crashes on driver search

Printing read:
Software - Kicksecure

Don’t install hplip driver-plugin your only trusted TemplateVM!

  • keep redoing the installation in a TemplateBasedVM
  • or use a StandaloneVM
  • or figure what needs bind-dirs selective persistence (undocumented,
    research task, difficult)

This is because the driver plugin is a proprietary closed source binary.

Could you document this please?

“keep redoing the installation in a TemplateBasedVM” - this could use
some separate Qubes specific documentation. There is no reason to avoid
installation of software in TempalteBasedVMs. I usually use scripts to
automate it. That saves disk space, fewer VMs to upgrade (no
StandaloneVM). For me, even less cumbersome.

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