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. > 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. -- Brian.