On Mon 02 Apr 2012 at 01:44:00 +0000, I wrote: >> I tried downloading the packages manually and using "dpkg -i", but the >> chain of dependencies was getting too scary. On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:40:51 +0100, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> replied: > ... 'dpkg -i cups-filters_1.0.11-1_i386.deb' ... That succeeded easily and fixed the problem. My problem had come while trying to install all of cups, not just cups-filters. Thanks.