ubuntu 8.04 lts cups problem

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:47 PM, James R. Jones <bnjrj at uaf.edu> wrote:
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>> Might be a red herring, but what's the output of 'sudo iptables -L'?
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>> Also, maybe this is worth a shot:
>> sudo dpkg --purge --ignore-depends=cupsys cupsys
>> sudo apt-get install cupsys
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>> I just tried it and it didn't break anything (that I noticed).  The
>> "--purge" should clean out all of the old config files.
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>> If that doesn't work, you might try 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure cupsys'
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>> Let me know if any of these work for you...
>>
>> Chris
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> Chris,
>
> Thanks that solved it, I did not have to do the dpkg-reconfigure cupsys. The
> only questions what is the difference of using the commands versus using the
> gui  System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager ? I thought that
> unistalling and reinstalling would accomplish the same things.
>
> Thanks for your help - problem is now solved and I have printing.

Glad to hear it.  I think choosing "Mark for complete removal" in
Synaptic is the equiv of "--purge", but I'm not 100% on that.

Chris