Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 04:00:52PM -0400, Alan McConnell 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

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jun 2016, Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-20, Charlie S wrote: > > > > On Debian Linux systems, have found HP printers are good and Epson > > printers to be good as well. > > > > Brother printers can be made to work, but it's onerous and not all the > > features work. Maybe

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-20, Charlie S wrote: > > On Debian Linux systems, have found HP printers are good and Epson > printers to be good as well. > > Brother printers can be made to work, but it's onerous and not all the > features work. Maybe it's just the models that I have tried to

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-20 Thread Charlie S
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:55:22 +0200 Rodary Jacques sent: > I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and > canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't > matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore > and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 June 2016 14:55:22 Rodary Jacques wrote: > I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and > canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't > matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore > and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remember

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-19 Thread Rodary Jacques
I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remember well) wasn't as good, by far. Canon said they didn't

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Jun 2016 at 16:00:52 -0400, Alan McConnell 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 is. > it all and reinstall. So I ran apt-get purge cups, but there > are still lots of

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-03, Alan McConnell 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

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread deloptes
Here are 3 ideas Alan McConnell wrote: > I ran wheezy, but now that I've moved to jessie How did you move to jessie - upgrade or new install? 1. I assume upgrade. Based on this there might be something left over from before - inspect the packages and clean up old packages. 2. The 3 in one

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-03 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > > 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.  

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > 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.    ? ? ? ?    Aaaagghhh!! You said that you purged CUPS. Since

CUPS under jessie

2016-06-03 Thread Alan McConnell
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,