problem with Lexmark z53 and cupsys-driver-gimpprint

[Scott Sweeny]

>From that error message it looks like it was trying to stop cupsd, but
there was a typo or something in the script.  Try typing
/etc/init.d/cupsd stop and then removing that package.

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:29:35 -0700, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to get Ubuntu to talk to my Lexmark z53 printer,
> and it doesn't work.  The latest attempt tonight was to install
> cupsys-driver-gimpprint from universe since it seems to solve some
> printing problems accoridng to some previous posts on the list (since
> I installed it, the z53 driver has now appeared when creating a new
> print queue, so I believe that I need that package one way or
> another.)
> 
> But that didn't solve my problem with the printer. And now I cannot
> even remove that packages via synaptic.  The error I get is:
> 
> Removing cupsys-driver-gimpprint ...
>  * Usage: /etc/init.d/cupsd {start|stop|restart|force-reload}
> dpkg: error processing cupsys-driver-gimpprint (--remove):
>  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
> 
> And since /etc/init.d/cupsd doesn't exist, I can understand why it's failing.
> 
> So the 2 questions:
> 
> a) anyone knows how to setup a Lexmark z53 printer? It works fine in a
> Fedora partition on the same computer, so it's not a hardware problem.
> 
> b) Am I stuck with that cupsys-driver-gimpprint packages forever?  Or
> there is a way to remove it even with that error.  I don't really like
> having an unremovable package since that can only lead to problems on
> the long run.
> 
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