dpkg

[Pastor JW]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 2:18:26 pm NoOp wrote:
> On 09/09/2009 07:33 AM, Pastor JW wrote:
> ...
>
> > 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. 

Ok, did that using the application installer.  I started it at 8:25 am,  it 
finished installing at 7:04 pm. last night.  Installed 2.11-2 from the 
website.

> 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?

Installer.

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



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