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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: can't do a clean install of cups
- From: Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:24:57 -0500
- Message-id: <20090128052457.25623.1072.reportbug@whenim64.Rahim-Dale>
Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny4
Severity: important
Because I have a Konica-Minolta 2400W printer, I had been using the Lenny CUPS on my server, but I recently upgraded my server to an AMD64 system and installed Etch+1/2 on it. I again used the Lenny CUPS package but was having problems so I tried my best to remove it and revert to the Etch+1/2 version. I used tasksel to stop this from being a print server then put it back as a printer server again. Unfortunately this didn't reset the cupsd.conf to the original install version. I tried various aptitude remove --purge commands but finally ended up erasing /etc/cups. However, after doing this I discovered that cups won't reinstall. I had to add some dummy files to get it work somewhat. Even using tasksel to remove the print server and reinstalling it doesn't help - tasksel aborts with an aptitude error (255) at the end. Frustrating... It seems to me that tasksel should be able to set up the print server onto a system.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
pn cups-common <none> (no description available)
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy
pn ghostscript <none> (no description available)
pn libavahi-compat-libdns <none> (no description available)
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn libcups2 <none> (no description available)
ii libcupsimage2 1.2.7-4etch6 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.0.2-1+etch2 simple interprocess messaging syst
pn libgnutls26 <none> (no description available)
ii libkrb53 1.4.4-7etch6 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn libldap-2.4-2 <none> (no description available)
ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.21 Library for handling paper charact
ii libslp1 1.2.1-6.2 OpenSLP libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-7etch6 Core Perl modules
ii poppler-utils [xpdf-ut 0.4.5-5.1etch3 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities
pn ssl-cert <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn avahi-utils <none> (no description available)
pn cups-client <none> (no description available)
ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii smbclient 3.0.24-6etch10 a LanManager-like simple client fo
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