<div dir="ltr">Package: aptitude<br>Version: 0.6.8.2-1<br>Severity: normal<br><br>Dear Maintainer,<br><br>Due to the pain of CUPS, I needed to reinstall my printers and that started with purging CUPS and reinstalling those related packages. I backed up the /etc/cups/ folder and ran 'aptitude purge cups-daemon', and then tired to install with 'aptitude install cups cups-daemon cups-client cups-server-common hplip-cups cups-common'. DPKG wasn't able to configure CUPS due to a missing cupsd.conf file (which is in the package that aptitude was installing, so it should not be missing).<br>
<br>I used 'apt-get install cups cups-daemon cups-client cups-server-common hplip-cups cups-common' instead and everything worked.<br><br>Aptitude should have unpacked the file contents as expected and as I've experienced in the past. The inability of a package manager to install necessary files seems like the tool isn't doing its job correctly.<br>
<br>Thanks for Debian!<br><br><br><br>-- Package-specific info:<br>Terminal: xterm<br>$DISPLAY is set.<br>which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude<br><br>aptitude version information:<br>aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 7 2012 07:08:03<br>
Compiler: g++ 4.7.2<br>Compiled against:<br> apt version 4.12.0<br> NCurses version 5.9<br> libsigc++ version: 2.2.10<br> Ept support enabled.<br> Gtk+ support disabled.<br> Qt support disabled.<br><br>Current library versions:<br>
NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404<br> cwidget version: 0.5.16<br> Apt version: 4.12.0<br><br>aptitude linkage:<br> linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff1ddff000)<br> libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007fdf2d9d8000)<br>
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fdf2d7a8000)<br> libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fdf2d57e000)<br> libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fdf2d379000)<br>
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007fdf2d079000)<br> libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0x00007fdf2cdd8000)<br> libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007fdf2c9f3000)<br>
libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fdf2c7dc000)<br> libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007fdf2c530000)<br> libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0x00007fdf2c515000)<br>
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fdf2c2f9000)<br> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fdf2bff1000)<br> libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdf2bcf3000)<br>
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fdf2badd000)<br> libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fdf2b730000)<br> libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007fdf2b52d000)<br>
libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fdf2b329000)<br> libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007fdf2b118000)<br> libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdf2af13000)<br>
librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fdf2ad0a000)<br> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fdf2e373000)<br><br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: 7.0<br> APT prefers unstable<br>
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')<br>Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br><br>Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)<br>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br><br>Versions of packages aptitude depends on:<br>ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1<br>ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.7<br>ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.2<br>ii libc6 2.17-7<br>
ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4<br>ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9<br>ii libgcc1 1:4.7.0-8<br>ii libncursesw5 5.9-10<br>ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2<br>ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1<br>
ii libstdc++6 4.7.0-8<br>ii libtinfo5 5.9-10<br>ii libxapian22 1.2.12-2<br>ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13<br><br>Versions of packages aptitude recommends:<br>
pn apt-xapian-index <none><br>pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc <none><br>pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none><br>ii sensible-utils 0.0.7<br><br>Versions of packages aptitude suggests:<br>
pn debtags <none><br>ii tasksel 3.14+nmu1<br><br>-- no debconf information<br>
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