Re: broken cups in sid
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:43:00PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
> On Saturday 29 May 2004 17:33, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:01:42PM -0400, richard lyons wrote:
>
> > > I dist-upgraded from sarge to sid abt. three days ago, and lost
> > > (amongst others) cups. As far as I could understand, there was a
> > > conflict between two versions of libcupsys2.
> > > [...]
> > > So I removed
> > > gnumeric and juggled a few versions in the foomatic-gimp-print /
> > > libcupsys2 / etc until aptitude said nothing was broken, and
> > > installed. Magic! - cupsys was up and running, I could log onto
> > > localhost:631 and it all looked good. But I cannot print or add
> > > a printer or do any admin function. I get
> > > "client-error-bad-request" or "client-error-gone" for every
> > > action.
> [...]
> > I had a bit of an head ache solving the dependencies as there was a
> > new tls version or something like that some packages depended on
> > causes cross reference problems.
> >
> > Once I solved this properly (making sure I still have
> > gnome-cups-manager) everything was fine.
>
> Micha, what do you mean by 'solved this properly'? I thought I had,
> for a moment. No packages are shown as broken by aptitude (which may
> be a less-than-difinitive test). But it doesn't work and I don't
> understand what kind of not-working this is.
>
I mean I got the dependencies resolved to a point that I could keep the
programs I wanted. See if you can get gnome-cups-manager running and
try adding a printer through it. Otherwise where does adding a printer
fail?
Here is a list of the cups related packages I have installed if it
helps (I am not sure all are needed but I didn't feel like trying to
figure which to throw out):
i cupsomatic-ppd - linuxprinting.org printer support - transi
i A cupsys - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
i A cupsys-bsd - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comm
i A cupsys-client - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client p
i cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data - Gimp-Print printer drivers for CUPS
i cupsys-pt - Tool for viewing/managing print jobs under
i A foomatic-db - linuxprinting.org printer support - databa
i A foomatic-db-engine - linuxprinting.org printer support - progra
i foomatic-db-gimp-print - linuxprinting.org printer support - databa
i foomatic-db-hpijs - linuxprinting.org printer support - databa
i foomatic-filters - linuxprinting.org printer support - filter
i foomatic-filters-ppds - linuxprinting.org printer support - prebui
i gnome-cups-manager - CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
i A libcupsimage2 - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image li
i A libcupsys2-gnutls10 - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
i libgnomecups1.0-1 - GNOME library for CUPS interaction
i libgnomecupsui1.0-1 - UI extensions to libgnomecups
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> richard
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