Re: Printing packages
On Saturday 04 March 2017 19:53:39 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 3/4/17, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Sat 04 Mar 2017 at 18:18:03 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >>> In order to print, I used to do:
> >>>
> >>> # aptitude install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsimage2
> >>> cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint gs-esp
> >>>
> >>> , but now cupsys seems not to exist any more. Please, what packages
> >>> now should
> >>> I install in place of those above? I'm running Sid.
> >>
> >> cupsys disappeared many, many moons ago. You want
> >>
> >> apt-get install cups
> >
> > Brian's answers are always wonderfully short. Yay, him! :D
> >
> > What I do for something like this (when I don't know something like
> > that cupsys is no longer) is I go down the line trying to install the
> > various packages by themselves, too. Sometimes (aka *not always*) that
> > will trigger my favored package manager to install the newer version
> > replacement as part of the dependency functions of the various package
> > installers...
> >
> > When that doesn't work, I regress to attempting a package manager
> > query using only outstanding pieces of the name (e.g. "gutenprint")
> > related to whatever package appears to no longer be available.
> >
> > AND/OR....
> >
> > Another angle of attack is to query for the "depends" and "rdepends"
> > (reverse depends) of any notable package names among the list I might
> > be trying to install. An example is that i just tried
> > "printer-driver-gutenprint":
> >
> > +++++++++++
> >
> > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache depends printer-driver-gutenprint
> > printer-driver-gutenprint
> > Depends: libc6
> > Depends: libcups2
> > Depends: libcupsimage2
> > Depends: libgutenprint2
> > Depends: libusb-1.0-0
> > Depends: cups
> > Depends: cups-client
> >
> > |Depends: cups-filters
> >
> > Depends: <ghostscript-cups>
> > Suggests: gutenprint-doc
> > Suggests: gutenprint-locales
> >
> > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache rdepends printer-driver-gutenprint
> > printer-driver-gutenprint
> > Reverse Depends:
> > gutenprint-doc
> > printer-driver-all-enforce
> > printer-driver-all
> > cups
> > parl-desktop-strict
> > cups-daemon
> >
> > +++++++++++
> >
> > Just thinking out loud........ Most definitely not as succinctly as
> > Brian. *indubitably*
> >
> > Cindy :)
>
> Well, he only answered to my first question... ;-)
>
> thanks,
>
> Rodolfo
Why, since you are using aptitude, not keep things simple? You actually want
to run CUPS, so <$ aptitude search cups>, then gulp and <$aptitude search
cups | less.>, which will give you all the packages with cups in the name.
Or in Jessie, <$aptitude show cups>, but for that you need to know, or try
guessing, that cups is a meta-package, which it may not be in Sid. So start
with aptitude search and read patiently through what it says.
Lisi
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