On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:18:42PM -0700, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
> [snip]
>
> FINAL UPDATE
>
> In all my poking and prodding, changing things and changing them back, I
> must have missed some change back somewhere and my printing system
> stopped working altogether.
>
> So I used yum to uninstall cups and it informed me that it would have to
> uninstall a ton of other programs for dependencies. Now, some of these
> dependencies made absolutely no sense. I mean, really! Why on earth
> would gnome-sudoku have to be uninstalled just because cups is gone?!
> But whatever.
>
I have in the past
1. noted and secured the rpm for the exact version of the offending
program (often on the distribution CDs)
2. done a reinstall with --nodeps --force
*Usually* this works just fine. One of my understandings of the "Unix
way" is that there may be dependencies galore, but there are never
intertwinings, i.e., one program's installation _never_ alters another
program's configuration or <shudder> replaces common libs or <gag>
rewrites other programs' object code. So it it's _there_, things should
work.
Don't start me on the concept of the Registry.
I am open to correction if anything I have said is off the mark.
Sorry you had to go through all that, but good that it worked out.
> I made a copy of the text detailing what all was going to be uninstalled
> and saved that list. I went ahead with the uninstall, only then
> realizing that I couldn't find my install disks.
>
> After several hours (over a day) on my dialup, yum finally finished
> reinstalling everything with only a few minor bumps in the road, and
> praise be! Printing worked again.
>
> Later, I discovered that gnumeric was now honoring my choice for a
> printer in my saved documents. It still defaulted to "generic
> postscript", and generic postscript still defaulted to "A4" paper. But
> at least when I select a printer for a given tab of a worksheet and save
> the file, it now has the decency to load back in with that printer and
> its particular settings for that page. Hmmm, the subject line still
> stands, but at least it is tolerable now. I never felt the pinch nearly
> so much in programs other than gnumeric. In that program, working
> around the problem was painfully tedious, not to mention repetitive.
>
> So, I ended up having to take the normal windows-style route, but at
> least it worked out.
>
> Thanks for all the excellent suggestions.
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