All Printers Have Disappearred - Resolved!

[NoOp]

On 10/21/2009 07:17 PM, R. A. Bilonick wrote:
...
> 
> OK, when I went to re-install cups using synaptic, I noticed that cups
> was no longer installed. When I marked it for installation, I knew
> immediately what had happened. The day before I had installed xpdf and
> xpdf-utils. xpdf-utils somehow conflicts with cups (and foolishly I
> didn't notice). I installed cups and lo and behold, cups is working
> again and I can access all my printers as before (without having to
> re-configure anything).
> 
> Thanks to NoOps for things to try.
> 
> Rick B.

That's interesting. What happens is that xpdf-utils conflicts with
poppler-utils & when it removes poppler-utils cups gets removed in the
process.

$ apt-cache depends xpdf-utils
xpdf-utils
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libfreetype6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libpaper1
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: libt1-5
  Depends: gsfonts
  Depends: xpdf-common
  Depends: xpdf-common
  Suggests: pdftk
  Conflicts: poppler-utils
  Conflicts: xpdf
  Conflicts: <xpdf-i>
  Replaces: poppler-utils
    xpdf-utils

$ apt-cache depends cups
cups
  Depends: libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libcups2
  Depends: libcupsimage2
  Depends: libdbus-1-3
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libgnutls26
  Depends: libijs-0.35
  Depends: libkrb53
  Depends: libldap-2.4-2
  Depends: libpam0g
  Depends: libpaper1
  Depends: libpoppler4
  Depends: libslp1
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Depends: zlib1g
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Depends: poppler-utils
  Depends: perl-modules
  Depends: procps
  Depends: ghostscript
  Depends: lsb-base
  Depends: cups-common
  Depends: ssl-cert
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: bc
  Depends: ttf-freefont
  Suggests: cups-bsd
  Suggests: cups-driver-gutenprint
  Suggests: foomatic-db-engine
  Suggests: foomatic-db
  Suggests: hplip
 |Suggests: xpdf-korean
 |Suggests: xpdf-japanese
 |Suggests: xpdf-chinese-traditional
  Suggests: xpdf-chinese-simplified
  Suggests: cups-pdf
  Recommends: cups-client
  Recommends: smbclient
  Recommends: foomatic-filters
  Recommends: avahi-utils
  Conflicts: cupsys
  Conflicts: cupsys-bsd
  Breaks: foomatic-filters
  Replaces: cupsys
  Replaces: cupsys-bsd