On Sunday 25 March 2001 12:59, you wrote:
> 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.
rpm -e is your new best friend. get rid of printpro and get rid of the cups
as well--(the cups daemon is from printpro and quit working after a month as
an inducement to buy EZPrintPro--it overwrote the original).
Then try a clean install of the printer service of your choice by the
old-fashioned
download to an empty directory
Open a terminal and su to root
cd to the download directory
rpm -ivh *rpm
rpm -e any conflicting packages
rpm -Uvh *rpm.
You could even try cups 1.1.6--I know it works well--I see terrific photo
prints from it and I know it can print halfway round the planet if ever I
wanted to do that.
Civileme
