On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 06:31:54PM -0500 or thereabouts, Civileme wrote:
> 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.
Ah, I see. So, this is a problem too..
> 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.
Yes I have it installed. The standard rpm grep produces:
gnome-print-0.20-5mdk
rhs-printfilters-1.76-3mdk
g-print-0.2-10mdk
gnome-print-devel-0.20-5mdk
printpro-4.1.2-1
printpro-lexmark-4.1.2-1
lexmark-MVprint-4.4-1
So, you see the Printpro is there.
rpm grep for cups produces:
cups-1.1.3-13mdk
qtcups-1.0-13mdk
cups-drivers-0.3.6-30mdk
> If you really want to give up and install lpd, then
>
> urpme cups
>
> should remove cups cleanly
Do you think if I remove the 2 printpro rpms, cups would work, or should I
just remove all, per your advice. Obviously, I need to print.. <g>
Thank you for you input Civileme,, much appreciated.
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Best regards,
Gary
