hi. I am having canon LBP2900B model printer and using ubuntu 10.04. downloaded driver for my model from canon site. download consists of cndrvcups-common.deb,cndrvcups-capt.deb files. when installing cups-common got this.
r...@balaji-desktop:/media/SETUP/linux packages/CANON_UK/Driver/Debian# dpkg -i cndrvcups-common_1.90-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package cndrvcups-common. (Reading database ... 141663 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking cndrvcups-common (from cndrvcups-common_1.90-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cndrvcups-common: cndrvcups-common depends on libcupsys2 (>= 1.1.23); however: Package libcupsys2 is not installed. dpkg: error processing cndrvcups-common (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: cndrvcups-common it shows i need to install libcupsys2,so tried to install libcupsys2,it gives the following r...@balaji-desktop:/media/SETUP/linux packages/CANON_UK/Driver/Debian# apt-get install libcupsys2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting libcups2 instead of libcupsys2 libcups2 is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 351 not upgraded. on google i found that libcupsys2 renamed as libcups2, but the cups-common drives needs to satisfy libcupsys2 dependency. now on google found "we have to satisfy libcupsys2 name dependency only and it is not functionally needed,so download and install dummy package libcupsys2 from security.ubuntu.com." downloaded libcupsys2 and tried to install. then r...@balaji-desktop:/home/balaji/Downloads# dpkg -i libcupsys2.deb dpkg: regarding libcupsys2.deb containing libcupsys2: libcups2 conflicts with libcupsys2 (<< 1.3.7-6) libcupsys2 (version 1.3.7-1ubuntu3.12) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing libcupsys2.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libcupsys2 Errors were encountered while processing: libcupsys2.deb libcups2 conflicts with libcupsys2, i tried to remove libcups2 and install libcupsys2 but libcups2 is needed for lot of other applications. so i cant remove libcups2. What can i do now? Regards, Balaji sivanath _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
