[Pkg-cups-devel] libcups2 fails to install

[Martin Pitt]

Hello,

Shane Zinda [2009-09-05  0:19 -0500]:
> Hello.  I am running gNewSense and am trying to install libcups2.  My system
> already has installed libcupsys2.  Some versions of libcups2 fails to
> install, and doesn't say why.  Other versions I've tried says something
> along the lines that libcupsys2 is conflicting with libcups2.  I am trying
> to install from a deb package.  libgtk2.0-0 will not install without
> libcups2 and libcups2 refuses to install because it sees libcupsys2.  Do you
> know how to get past this conflict to install libcups2?  Thank you.

libcupsys2 was renamed to libcups2 a while ago. Similarly, cupsys2 was
renamed to cups2, and so on. You can't install both at the same time.
On an upgrade, apt should automatically replace the old packages with
the new ones. Unless you have a weird mix of unofficial repositories,
that is. In that case you might be better off with uninstalling
everything cups related and reinstalling from your third party
repository.

Martin


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