Hi, thanks for your answer. I had indeed tried it and it fails, unfortunately, with the following messages:
cups-daemon is already the newest version (2.1.3-4). printer-driver-gutenprint is already the newest version (5.2.11-1). printer-driver-gutenprint set to manually installed. cups-filters is already the newest version (1.8.3-2ubuntu3.1). cups-filters set to manually installed. ghostscript is already the newest version (9.18~dfsg~0-0ubuntu2.3). cups-ppdc is already the newest version (2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2). cups-ppdc set to manually installed. cups is already the newest version (2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2). cups set to manually installed. cups-core-drivers is already the newest version (2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2). You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: cups : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed Depends: cups-daemon (>= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) Depends: cups-client (>= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) cups-bsd : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed Depends: cups-client (= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) cups-core-drivers : Depends: libcups2 (= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed Depends: cups-daemon (>= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) libcups2 : Breaks: libcups2:i386 (!= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed libcups2:i386 : Breaks: libcups2 (!= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed libcupscgi1 : Breaks: libcupscgi1:i386 (!= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed libcupscgi1:i386 : Breaks: libcupscgi1 (!= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed libcupsimage2 : Breaks: libcupsimage2:i386 (!= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed libcupsimage2:i386 : Breaks: libcupsimage2 (!= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed libcupsmime1 : Breaks: libcupsmime1:i386 (!= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed libcupsmime1:i386 : Breaks: libcupsmime1 (!= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed libcupsppdc1 : Breaks: libcupsppdc1:i386 (!= 2.1.3-4) but 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2 is to be installed libcupsppdc1:i386 : Breaks: libcupsppdc1 (!= 2.1.3-4ubuntu0.2) but 2.1.3-4 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). -- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp