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The following works:

$ zip -rj /the/absolute/path/tmp{.zip,}

It produced a file called tmp.zip, saving me the trouble to repeat the folder name as the name of the zip archive.

In my rifle.conf (ranger specific configuration file) I have:

!mime ^text, !ext xml|csv|tex|py|pl|rb|sh|php  = zip -rj "$@"{.zip,}

The "$@" translates to the path. This works fine, I make use of this a lot.
But when I try it, the error I get is:

zip error: Nothing to do! (/the/absolute/path/tmp{.zip,})

This has worked fine for me, too. It only stopped working after upgrading my OS and with it ranger. So there is likely something I am missing here.

$ ranger --version
ranger version: ranger 1.9.3
Python version: 3.8.10 (default, Mar 15 2022, 12:22:08) [GCC 9.4.0]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

$ cat /etc/upstream-release/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=20.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu Focal Fossa"

Scanner: Viisan VF3120, which is supposedly compatible with Linux.
I'm on LTS (Bionic).

root# sudo sane-find-scanner | grep libus 
found USB scanner (vendor=0x3297 [ZSA], product=0x1969 [Moonlander Mark I]) at libusb:003:007
found USB scanner (vendor=0x2e5a, product=0xd012, chip=GL848+) at libusb:003:034 

It also for some reason detects my keyboard, the Moonlander.
The second line disappears when I turn off the scanner, which is the only hint I have that it is actually the scanner.

Though, it also changes a bit, but I guess that's normal for USB.

found USB scanner (vendor=0x2e5a, product=0xd012, chip=GL848+) at libusb:003:042

This is the line from lsusb that only appears when the scanner is turned on.

root# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 036: ID 2e5a:d012

No luck with scanimage, though.

root# scanimage -L

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).

root# scanimage --version
scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.27; backend version 1.0.27

Tried updating, but it made no difference.

root# add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release
[..update upgrade]
root# scanimage --version
scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.32; backend version 1.0.27

Tried manually adding the device to the config.

root# grep d012 /etc/sane.d/*conf
/etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf:usb 0x2e5a 0xd012

Did not help.

root# SANE_DEBUG_SNAPSCAN=128 scanimage -L
[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of snapscan to 128.
[snapscan] sane_snapscan_init
[snapscan] sane_snapscan_init: Snapscan backend version 1.4.53
[snapscan] add_usb_device(libusb:003:042)
[snapscan] add_usb_device: Detected (kind of) an USB device
[snapscan] snapscani_usb_open(libusb:003:042)
[snapscan] add_usb_device: Checking if 0x2e5a is a supported USB vendor ID
[snapscan] add_usb_device: USB vendor ID 0x2e5a is currently NOT supported by the snapscan backend.
[snapscan] snapscani_usb_close(1)
[snapscan] 1st read 0 write 0
[snapscan] 2nd read 0 write 0
[snapscan] sane_snapscan_get_devices (0x7ffe17e81320, 0)

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[snapscan] sane_snapscan_exit

I use the comment tag to list the orchestra for my classical music (all flac) with puddletag. Clementine has no problem displaying this, but when I try this with ncmpcpp the player treats this tag as empty.

Is there something I'm missing? Why is only the comment tag not shown?

In ncmpcpp I use "%C" to display comment. In puddletag the tag is called "comment".

I'm searching for a command line tool that can shift the timing of a subtitle file (*.srt, *.ass).

Using the sc (Spreadsheet Calculator) or (Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised) sc-im (more) I can manage spreadsheets in the terminal.

Is there a way to plot this data in the terminal, too?

I've found termgraph, which allows to plot in the terminal, but it doesn't work with data from sc.

With older versions of ubuntu this questions answers still worked. Now they don't.

The repositories aren't reachable and building from source fails because of dependency errors.

I've found this PPA, but it isn't working either:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgegl-0.0-0 : Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package

How do you go back to the last sane version of gimp: 2.6?