On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote:
I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed
lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly,
it worked fine.
How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it was installed by default,
because I have Etch and no cupsys; however, I didn't install Gnome or
KDE either.
But in Etch, cupsys isn't dependent upon Gnome or KDE.
So I reviewed what I had done the last time, and, yes, I had installed
a few other packages before attempting to remove cupsys. They were:
emacs, cvs, ssh-server, and, very interestingly, python-2.5.
I think if you install lenny from netinst, then install python-2.5 and
*then* attempt to remove cupsys, the problem will be reproduced.
So maybe it's a problem with the python-2.5 package, after all.
Steve
Perhaps you installed hplip which depends upon cupsys. Printconf will
also bring in cupsys.
See if you can get a print driver that doesn't depend upon cupsys. I'm
lucky that my printer manufacturer provides a driver that only requires
lprng 8-)
When I browse within aptitude, I don't see a conflict between python2.4
and python2.5, but I'm using Etch, and the conflict may be simply
undocumented.
Sorry, I'm not willing to mess up my system to test your problem :-)
Try the experiment you described: install Lenny from netinst, install
python2.5, then remove cupsys. If the problem recurs, then you might
have found a bug.
Then try using "dpkg -r" to remove python2.5 and cupsys. Since python2.5
seems to be causing the problem, it should go first.
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