I wanted to post a follow up to my original question. I believe I now know the consequences. It broke the package system. I tried to fix it with dpkg -i suggestion. But, that failed with the
As far as I can tell, make install installed a non LSB cups script into /etc/init.d/. The next time I tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade, I received a lot of errors: <snippage> Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libsane-hpaio hplip-data Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: hplip-data libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpijs Suggested packages: hpijs-ppds hplip-doc The following packages will be REMOVED: cups* cups-driver-gutenprint* hplip* printer-driver-gutenprint* printer-driver-hpcups* The following packages will be upgraded: hplip-data libhpmud0 libsane-hpaio printer-driver-hpijs 4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 649 not upgraded. 211 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/7,640 kB of archives. After this operation, 7,660 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22.1) ... insserv: warning: script 'K36cups' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: warning: script 'cups' missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a loop at service minissdpd if started insserv: Starting cups depends on minissdpd and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! </snippage> The way that I fixed it was by copying a working copy of the cups script from a Debian VM that I have running. apt-get worked fine after that. And after upgrading, printing even works. So, I guess whatever bug existed in cups-filters is fixed in the current version. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 06 Apr 2012 at 14:08:25 -0500, Darren Crotchett wrote: > > > I had an issue with the cups-filters package on Wheezy. I found that the > > bug was resolved in the unstable branch. But, I wasn't sure how to get > the > > unstable branch version of cups. So, I compiled cups-filters from source > > and installed it on top of my current version (did not uninstall the > > package version first). This fixed my problem. But, now I'm wondering > > what the consequences will be and if there was a better way to handle it. > > You made it hard for yourself. It would have been sufficient to have > downloaded cups-filters from unstable and installed it with 'dpkg -i'. > You could still do this after purging the cups-filters you have. > > > My reasoning for leaving the apt pkg installed was because I wanted apt > to > > still upgrade when a new version comes out. > > The version you install with 'dpkg -i' will still be upgraded if there > is a higher version available. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120406192856.GF16316@desktop > >