Re: problems with cups: moving back to 1.1.23

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 03/25/2008 05:47 AM, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 10:36 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: 
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am running etch with cups for printing in a Lexmark e210 printer.
> > Since the moving from sarge to etch, my printing system is not working
> > correctly. Sometimes pages are skipped, or the whole system hangs badly
> > forcing me to do a hard reboot. I googled looking for a fix, but without
> > success. When I was running sarge, everything with printing worked like
> > a charm. So, I would like to move back to the version of cups in sarge.
> > Is it possible? how can I do this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Marcelo
>
> Dear debianners,
>
> I really need help with my question above, i.e, I want to give the
> moving from cups 1.2.7 (in etch) to cups 1.1.23 (in sarge) a try. Any
> tip will be very welcome.
>
> With the best regards,
>
> Marcelo

You might be able to add Sarge to your /etc/apt/sources.list, update, 
purge cups 1.2.7 and install cups 1.1.23. However, downgrading isn't 
officially supported, and it doesn't often work very well.

Another possibility would be to recompile cups 1.1.23 from the source 
for Etch. As you probably know, the source is still in the Sarge 
repositories.

Good luck.