On Fri 9 Mar 2001, Eric MC D wrote:
>How can we get out every trace of Cups ??
I just did this. Cups has been a real roller coaster ride for me: I
couldn't get it to work at all, then it worked great for a while. Then I
had to re-install Mandrake (for other reasons) and lost CUPS completely. I
think that if it works for you "out of the box" then you are very
fortunate: a working cups is indeed superior to lpr. If it doesn't work
"out of the box", then one seems to have to grapple with a system that is
at least as complex as, say, sendmail. That, I don't think, is a good
thing. ; it's neither practical, nor desirable. No offence, Till, but
that's the way it seems man.
Here's how to remove CUPS and re-install the legacy lpr:
1- As root, erase all the cups rpms and associated programs. This will
depend on how updated your cups system is. I did the following, all on
one line:
# rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk cups-devel-1.1.6-10.1mdk
cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk kups-0.8-24mdk qtcups-1.0-14mdk
(note that wildcards do not work with "rpm -e" ... if you try, rpm will
tell you it's not installed ... you have to be explicit, and you must
leave out the ".586.rpm")
If that didn't work for you, then try removing the packages individually
.. i.e.,:
# rpm -e --nodeps cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk
# rpm -e --nodeps cups-devel-1.1.6-10.1mdk
# rpm -e --nodeps cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk
# rpm -e --nodeps kups-0.8-24mdk
# rpm -e --nodeps qtcups-1.0-14mdk
Now you can install the legacy lpr stuff. From the LM7.2 disks, install:
lpr-0.50-7mdk.i586.rpm
and
rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk.i586.rpm
At this point I was still a bit stuck .... Mandrake's Drakprint (or
whatever it's called) was useless, and I really haven't developed any
confidence in Mandrake's automated tools yet. But having had some
experience with RedHat, I simply installed "printtool" from my RedHat 6.2
CD's (I didn't find it on the Mandrake CD's). The rpm is:
printtool-3.44-1.noarch.rpm
This rpm installs no problem in LM 7.2 and you can find it anywhere.
The only step left is to invoke "printtool" from the command line, do the
simple configuration, and you'll be able to print from virtually any
Linux application thereafter.
dsl
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11-Mar-2001
07:59:57
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