On Thursday 11 January 2001 01:48 am, you wrote:
> Okay, look, .... I don't want to get into the plusses or minusses of
> CUPS. I've paid my CUPS dues, and would like to go back to lpr for now.
> Sure I think lpr is brain dead, and I think CUPS is the future of
> printing in *nix. But for *now*, I would really like to wipe CUPS from my
> system and replace it with the lpr system.
>
> I have a stock LM 7.2 install (with the latest security upgrades). Can
> someone please tell me what CUPS packages I need to "rpm -e" and what
> lpr packages I need to "rpm -Uvh --test" ??
>
> Please? Thanks.
>
> Dave.
Hi Dave,
I just did this very thing today myself. I was just tired of fighting with
Cups to either print correctly, or at all in apps like Star Office. Seemed
that no matter what I did I wasn't going to get my Canon and Cups to play
nice with the apps on my machine.
The way I handled uninstalling Cups was to use Kpackage. I just did a search
with the "find" function in kpackage, and with that app in Mdk 7.2 you can
"mark" a package for uninstall and then uninstall a number of packages at
once. You will have to uncheck the "dependency" checkbox of course, but I
removed anything and everything that was installed on the system that had
anything at all to do with Cups/Kups, and then configured Lpr to do all the
printing. Everything is working quite well as a matter of fact now. Color
intensity has gone way up, there are no more faded areas on a print job, and
jobs sent to the print queue are no longer mysteriously disappearing from the
queue without printing.
I think I'm going to stick with Lpr for a while and wait till cups isn't so
much fussing and work to get it to print with what ever printer happens to be
found on the desktop. Cups has a lot of potential, but I don't think it's
quite there yet.
--
Mark
"If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
"Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Linus Torvalds
