On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 04:00:52PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > CUPS seems to be the standard printing SW used by Linux, or at least > by Debian. But my CUPS is totally broken and I'd like to get rid of > it all and reinstall. So I ran apt-get purge cups, but there > are still lots of cups-related files on my system, like in > /etc/cups/, /usr/lib/cups, /usr/share/cups, and likely other > places as well.
You can use `dpkg -S <some-path>` to see which package(s) own files within the paths, then consider removing those packages. You have likely missed one or two cups-related ones. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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