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Bug#304845: tasksel: desktop task has incomplete printing support



Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> This is my first time using tasks and I'm not very familiar with cups,
> so pardon me if I have the wrong idea about how this is supposed to
> work.  I just installed a Debian unstable system (using a
> debian-installer snapshot and changing sources.list to use unstable)
> selecting only the desktop task.  This resulted in the following cups
> packages being installed:
> 
>     gnome-cups-manager
>     libgnomecups1.0-1 
>     libgnomecupsui1.0-1
>     libcupsys2-gnutls10
> 
> Since this doesn't include a cups server, the GNOME printer manager
> fails with "The CUPS server could not be contacted.".  It seems to me
> that a desktop task should include working printer support.

There's a print server task on the same screen that will install printer
support.

-- 
see shy jo

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