On Sunday 25 March 2001 11:53, you wrote:
> I am just fed up with cups, it will not work. I even upgraded using the
> updater, and nothing works, Even using Drakconf, it will not read cups
> driver databases. I have even rebuilt that from source, I have tried
> everything I know. Checked parallel port, etc. I quit!
>
> can someone tell me how to get rid of cups and go back to the regular lpr
> system... There are so many dependents, even core Gnome, etc, I am leery
>
> Has anyone successfully removed cups and use the old system, if so how?
>
> Many thanks,
If you used update to upgrade cups, that is a significant problem.
You see the 7.2 packages were a backport from 8.0 which has different
packaging policies (so we never have another schism in the latest binaries
needing a library the earlier release cannot support, as we had between 7.2
and cooker). Mandrake Update is _not_ capable of guessing that a
singlepackage has become two or three.
If you originally installed "Everything" in custom or expert mode, you have
within your system packages conflicting with cups, including a cups daemon
replacement that times out after 30 days. You can check this by running
rpm -qa | grep rint
If you see any packages that say "printpro", there is the whole of your
problem.
If you really want to give up and install lpd, then
urpme cups
should remove cups cleanly
Civileme
