[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#513319: can't do a clean install of cups

Gary Dale garydale at rogers.com
Wed Jan 28 05:24:57 UTC 2009


Package: cups
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny4
Severity: important

Because I have a Konica-Minolta 2400W printer, I had been using the Lenny CUPS on my server, but I recently upgraded my server to an AMD64 system and installed Etch+1/2 on it. I again used the Lenny CUPS package but was having problems so I tried my best to remove it and revert to the Etch+1/2 version. I used tasksel to stop this from being a print server then put it back as a printer server again. Unfortunately this didn't reset the cupsd.conf to the original install version. I tried various aptitude remove --purge commands but finally ended up erasing /etc/cups. However, after doing this I discovered that cups won't reinstall. I had to add some dummy files to get it work somewhat. Even using tasksel to remove the print server and reinstalling it doesn't help - tasksel aborts with an aptitude error (255) at the end. Frustrating... It seems to me that tasksel should be able to set up the print server onto a system.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
pn  cups-common            <none>            (no description available)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.11etch2       Debian configuration management sy
pn  ghostscript            <none>            (no description available)
pn  libavahi-compat-libdns <none>            (no description available)
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
pn  libcups2               <none>            (no description available)
ii  libcupsimage2          1.2.7-4etch6      Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.0.2-1+etch2     simple interprocess messaging syst
pn  libgnutls26            <none>            (no description available)
ii  libkrb53               1.4.4-7etch6      MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
pn  libldap-2.4-2          <none>            (no description available)
ii  libpam0g               0.79-5            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.21            Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-6.2         OpenSLP libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl-modules           5.8.8-7etch6      Core Perl modules
ii  poppler-utils [xpdf-ut 0.4.5-5.1etch3    PDF utilitites (based on libpopple
ii  procps                 1:3.2.7-3         /proc file system utilities
pn  ssl-cert               <none>            (no description available)

Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn  avahi-utils           <none>             (no description available)
pn  cups-client           <none>             (no description available)
ii  foomatic-filters      3.0.2-20061031-1.2 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient             3.0.24-6etch10     a LanManager-like simple client fo





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