I tried aptitude and apt-get and did get 77 packages that have refused to upgrade for the last 6 months installed using aptitude. apt-get didn't fix them. I now get: opie:/home/hgh# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. but openoffice still won't print, it shows release "1.1.2".
Called the cups people for help and they showed me some tricks including resetting my ppd file on the server using: "lpadmin -pcolor -i hpb46007.ppd.gz" I also found that my openoffice printer settings had gotten reset to "A4" paper during the upgrade rather than the default of "letter", Hah Hah Hah very funny, got me again with that cheap trick. I guess I shot myself in the foot by taking the maintainers/developers config file rather than keeping my own. I also found out how to funnel a postscript file thru the print que unscathed and this fixed my "crisp" editor printing problems where the landscape options inside the postscript file where being overridden by setting up the print command on "crisp" like so: "| lpr -o raw" So it looks like my printing woe's are behind me. Thanks to everyone for the tips and support. hgh. -- Henry Hollenberg hgh@rcwm.com