Things are working now, but I sidestepped the Debian way. I ended up not removing CUPS from Debian, but manually deleting its files ("dpkg -L cupsys" lists all the files in the package), then manually installing a newer version of CUPS from source, as well as the splix driver, also from source.
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- 17 Nov 2007, 17:35
- Forum: Bubba Server Support
- Topic: apt-get wants to deinstall 'bubba' when installing new cups
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- 16 Nov 2007, 15:20
- Forum: Bubba Server Support
- Topic: apt-get wants to deinstall 'bubba' when installing new cups
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apt-get wants to deinstall 'bubba' when installing new cups
I want to connect a Samsung laser printer to my Bubba, but need to install splix, a driver for this family of printers. Splix requires access to cups headers (and a newer version of cups), so I want to deinstall cups and reinstall the newer cups and splix from source.
The trouble is, when I try to ...
The trouble is, when I try to ...