[PLUG] Cannot get to printer
Vedanta Teacher
orevedantateacher at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 00:12:53 UTC 2016
If it is any relief to you CUPS has caused me grief as well.
Paul W.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Well, after much fussing without any progress, I used Synaptic to install
> cups. Now before you say "duhhhhh", let me explain. Synaptic lists many
> cup-<somethings> . cups is described as the scheduler, and not installed.
> But it also lists it as conflicts with cups. What sense does that make?
> Anyway, no change was observed after the install. So I shut down and wrote
> some notes. Booted back up and Bingo! The printer was magically present
> without any hesitation. Incidentally I also upgraded a dozen or so
> packages.
>
> So what is this scheduler stuff? What is this conflicts with cups? Any
> ideas on how it went away (other than operator error)?
>
> Thanks to all those who tried to help. And apologies to those whose
> reading time was taken up by this saga.
>
> -Denis
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