CUPS and Kubuntu Dapper

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 16:09, Laszlo Pandy wrote:
> After upgrading my breezy install to dapper, CUPS was broken as you
> described. However after formatting and doing a clean re-install of kubuntu
> flight-5 it works fine. The only thing I did differently was add the
> printer from within GNOME, but i can print from kde, and the systemsettings
> print configuration no longer complains about not being able to connect to
> the server. As far as I know, CUPS works fine in dapper.
>
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 2:20 pm, Miquel Torres wrote:
> > CUPS has now been broken in dapper for months. There are two facts:
> >
> > 1- CUPS 1.2 is not released yet, it is not even beta nor alpha(!)
> > 2- KDE as of 3.5.1 is not compatible with the current CUPS 1.2
> > development branch.
> >
> > Has anything been decided on how to solve this problem?. It doesn't seem
> > easy. Either hack KDE 3.5.2 to be compatible with CUPS 1.1.9x or decide
> > to ship breeze's CUPS with dapper because 1.1.9something is really too
> > bleeding edge.
> >
> > I have tested today (23.03) the daily build of Kubuntu live-cd and it is
> > still broken. KDEPrint still delivers the dreaded "CUPS can't connect to
> > server" message.
> >
> > This is not meant as a criticism, I just want to stress how important it
> > is to solve this as soon as possible in the dapper development cycle for
> > what should be an enterprise-ready release.
> >
> > Regards
> >
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I am using Kubuntu Flight5 with latest updates and do not know have Gnome 
installed.  Printing does not work, cannot connect to CUPS server.  This is a 
huge problem that needs to get resolved.

Joanthan