Re: cups broken
On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 21:31:24 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote:
> > > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> > > >
> > > > [Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.]
> > > >
> > > Blame that in tbird.
> > Yet another part of the compting experience tou are unable to
> > control?
> > > > > I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be
> > > > > deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work,
> > > > > preventing me from using the printer at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate package
> > > > > that is removable? cups doesn't even offer to disable this
> > > > > non-working garbage. Thanks for any good clues.
> > > > Driverless printing is only possible when avahi-daemon is on the
> > > > system. Your solution is obvious.
> > > >
> > > avahi-daemon 0.8-5 is installed.
> > Is this the avahi-daemon that, in the past, you have characterised as
> > unfit to be used on a local network and that didn't deserve any of
> > your disk space.
> True, but that is all, none of its kin is. And I did find out how to defeat
> it. But
> when I went to look, that file has vanished and its still working.
>
> So what happened that got /etc/dhcpcd.conf removed?
> It had a fallback stanza near the bottom that I had edited in
> the default eth0 config. That finally got rid of the totally bogus
> 169.xx.yy.zz
> routing address. Now the file is gone, and its still working.
Good.
> > > See the ppd driverless attached to my
> > > previous msg it just now made.
> > > It looks busted to me.
> > Broken files are best not used. Remove and follow my previos advice.
> >
> I have. and cups brings it back automatically on the restart that does.
> Probably
> 20 times I've deleted it. Its back before I can look to see if its gone.
That is cups-browsed doing auto-setup. As far as you are concerned
that is its sole job. It doesn't do anything else for you or the
printing system. Therefore:
apt purge cups-browsed
--
Brian.
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