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[NoOp]

On 09/09/2009 07:33 AM, Pastor JW wrote:
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> 
> Turboprint has been there since March I think but something in it must have 
> broken.  It can no longer find the printer.  If I could get apt-get remove 
> turboprint to work or even synaptic to come up perhaps I could remove 
> turboprint and start over.  As it is, it seems the only thing I can do it 
> wait some more till dpkg --configure -a eventually finishes since it seems to 
> be still doing something.  Never had anything Kubuntu take so long to work 
> before!

Latest version is:
$ apt-cache policy turboprint
turboprint:
  Installed: 2.11-2
  Candidate: 2.11-2
  Version table:
 *** 2.11-2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

You might try:

$ sudo apt-get purge turboprint

and then reinstall. Or, you can manually delete: /usr/share/turboprint
and /etc/turboprint and /usr/bin/tpconfig
/usr/bin/tpprint
/usr/bin/tprintdaemon
/usr/bin/tpsetup
/usr/bin/turboprint
/usr/bin/turboprint-monitor
/var/turboprint

What _may_ be happening is that the turboprint setup program is stuck
awaiting input for a response to reconfigure the
/etc/turboprint/system.cfg file. How are you installing - via the
application installer or from the command line?

Note: I use gnome, so no help on the kde side from me.