Bug#993668: CUPS is missing after a default GNOME Desktop Install
On Sat 04 Sep 2021 at 21:09:56 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nader Nooryani <nn.bug.report@gmail.com> wrote (Sat, 4 Sep 2021 16:16:50 +0200):
> > As of Debian 11, Print Server is no longer included as an option in the
> > Debian installer if you use the defaults: Debian desktop environment, GNOME
> > and standard system utilities. Ref:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950553
> >
> > This leaves the user without CUPS after a default install. This should
> > perhaps be included in task-gnome-desktop
>
> I have tested this, and CUPS got installed here with GNOME desktop (default install).
>
> The dependency chain turns out to be:
> task-gnome-desktop -> gnome-core -> system-config-printer-common -> cups-pk-helper -> libcups2
>
> (BTW: CUPS also gets installed with the other desktops via
> gnome-core -> system-config-printer-common -> cups-pk-helper -> libcups2)
>
> So, I cannot reproduce this.
>
>
> Do you have the installation logs available?
I have a recent bullseye installation that has only the base system.
Therefore, I can be confident that 'apt install task-xxxxx-desktop
will show all the packages to be installed. Only kde and cinnamon
install the cups package.
libcups2 has shared libraries. For a working printing system it is
essential to have the scheduler, cupsd, available, This is in the
cups-daemon package and would be installed when cups is pulled in.
Regards,
Brian.
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