Re: CUPS under jessie
On 2016-06-03, Alan McConnell <alan@his.com> wrote:
> CUPS seems to be the standard printing SW used by Linux, or at least
> by Debian. But my CUPS is totally broken and I'd like to get rid of
> it all and reinstall. So I ran apt-get purge cups, but there
> are still lots of cups-related files on my system, like in
> /etc/cups/, /usr/lib/cups, /usr/share/cups, and likely other
> places as well.
>
> How do I make sure that my system is cups-clean, before I reinstall?
>
> [ Background: I have a Canon 4770n three-in-one, connected to my
> computer by a USB cable. It is a very handsome piece of machinery,
> it worked fine when I ran wheezy, but now that I've moved to jessie,
> the printing part doesn't work at all. However, the scanning capability
> works just fine, as does the copying, which is of course independent of
> the computer. ]
>
> I would be very grateful for any aid. Just to show how bad things
> are: I try to access http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get
> the message: Unable to connect. ? ? ? ? Aaaarrrrgghhh!!
>
> Alan
>
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Troubleshooting#Problems_resulting_from_upgrades
Who knows, might help, if you haven't already explored solutions less
radical than outright expurgation.
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