ophion, try the following: sudo dpkg -P --force-depends libcups2
This will remove libcups2 without moving anything else, but now many applications in your system will not work. DO NOT REBOOT. Now do sudo apt-get install -f How does this try to fix your system? Get libcups2 from the repos? Or remove half the system? In the former case simply go on so that you get the old libcups2 from the download miror. In the latter case, do not go on. Try sudo apt-get install -f libcups2 Please tell whether this helps and how it helped. Please post any terminal output. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676621 Title: cups : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed Status in cups package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is related to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1642790 After `sudo apt-get -f install`, it removed cups and marked a bunch of cups packages as unnecessary `sudo apt-get autoremove` removed them. Now when I try to re-install cups, I get this error: ``` ☀ sudo apt-get install cups cups-daemon cups-core-drivers Mod master Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: cups : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed Depends: libcupscgi1 (>= 1.4.2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libcupsmime1 (>= 1.4.0) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: printer-driver-gutenprint but it is not going to be installed cups-core-drivers : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed cups-daemon : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed Depends: libcupsmime1 (>= 1.5.0) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: cups-browsed but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ``` To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/1676621/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
