cannot open system/admin/printing, cups errors, cups server could not be contacted...

[gerhard]

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 14:49 -0500, Scott Lockwood wrote:
> It's cupsys, not cups. dpkg isn't the way to do it anyhow. Once you have
> cups installed (sudo aptitude install cupsys) then point your browswer
> at http://localhost:631/ and go from there. It's pretty easy and menu
> driven from that point.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 21:43 +0200, gerhard wrote:
> > I cant remember what I changes and just followed documentation on how
> > to
> > install a network printer through cups.  I am new to linux/ubuntu. I
> > dont get error message just that cups server could not be contacted
> > when
> > I go to system/admin/printing. I cant even setup my local printer and
> > get the same message
> > 
> > "dpkg -r cups" I get this
> >  dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove cups which isn't
> > installed. 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Scott Lockwood
> 

I installed cupsys before but the link to http://localhost:631/ does not work.
When I go to system/admin/printing the local printer does not even
appear and gives me this message: cups server could not be contacted