Re: cups in debian??
On Monday 01 August 2005 08:27, David Goodenough wrote:
>On Monday 01 August 2005 13:00, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> New 3.1 install, got x working, sorta.
>>
>> I still do not know howto switch from the gnome desktop to the kde
>> desktop, hints please.
>>
>> Also, since I've got cups working here, I thought I'd point a
>> browser at http://localhost:631 on that box and and see if I could
>> get that to work. Unforch, no page exists, and according to
>> aptitude, no package named cups exists.
>
>The CUPS package on Debian is called cupsys, No idea why but it
>is. Maybe the name cups was felt to be too generic. The best
>way to find such things in future is to use:-
>
>apt-cache search
>
>to which you can pass keywords and the like to look for, so
>"apt-cache search cups" would, amongst many others, tell you
>that the package was called cupsys.
>
>David
Found it, had aptitude install it. Haven't tried to see if it works
yet though.
Thanks. I noted when I had synaptic running that there was a package
already named cups but its description wasn't indicative of the
Common Unix Printing System. cups is so generic these days that I'd
vote to rename that other package in a millicesond...
>
>> Howto fix this, please?
>>
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
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>> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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