Re: Printing with lprng; no CUPS! :-)
John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>:
> s. keeling writes:
> > Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
> > understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
> > try to blow away lprng:
>
> There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages
> installed (I don't use a "desktop environment") but apt is not trying to
> install them.
I suspect it may have something to do with some of the stuff "aptitude
-R install foomatic-filters-ppds" did. I'd never tried using that
switch before:
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The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
bsh cpp cpp-4.1 dbus discover1 discover1-data gcj-4.1-base gij gij-4.1
hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-data libdiscover1 libft-perl libgcj-bc libgcj-common
libgcj7-0 libgcj7-awt libgcj7-jar libglade2-0 libglib2.0-data libgtk2.0-bin
libjaxp1.3-java libjline-java libjpeg-progs libpaper-utils libttf2 libxalan2-java
libxerces2-java libxprintapputil1 libxprintutil1 libxt-java libxxf86misc1 mdetect
myspell-en-us openoffice.org-java-common psfontmgr sgml-base x-ttcidfont-conf
xfonts-base xfonts-utils xli xml-core xprint-utils xresprobe xscreensaver xutils
xutils-dev
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
hpijs hpijs-ppds libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libsysfs2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
foomatic-filters-ppds hpijs hpijs-ppds libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libsysfs2
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
cupsys
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