On 25-Mar-2001 Gary wrote:
Well, at the risk of offending the CUPS faithful, here's how I removed
CUPS and installed the legacy lpr system; this is from a March 11/2001
post to the list:
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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.
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If you *really* can't get CUPS to work for you, the above will remove
CUPS and get the legacy lpr system up & running.
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> 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?
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25-Mar-2001
13:55:31
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