Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
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-rela

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jun 2016, Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-20, Charlie S wrote: > > > > On Debian Linux systems, have found HP printers are good and Epson > > printers to be good as well. > > > > Brother printers can be made to work, but it's onerous and not all the > > features work. Maybe it's just the models tha

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-20, Charlie S wrote: > > On Debian Linux systems, have found HP printers are good and Epson > printers to be good as well. > > Brother printers can be made to work, but it's onerous and not all the > features work. Maybe it's just the models that I have tried to get > working are not th

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-19 Thread Charlie S
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 15:55:22 +0200 Rodary Jacques sent: > I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and > canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't > matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore > and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remem

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 19 June 2016 14:55:22 Rodary Jacques wrote: > I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and > canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't > matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore > and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remember we

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-19 Thread Rodary Jacques
I may be completely wrong: I had a canon printer once, and canon had made a driver for Cups under MacOS but it doesn't matter. After an OS upgrade, the driver didn't work anymore and the driver used by Cups (gimp related if I remember well) wasn't as good, by far. Canon said they didn't want/c

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread Brian
On Fri 03 Jun 2016 at 16:00:52 -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 is. > it all and reinstall. So I ran apt-get purge cups, but there > are still lots of cup

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-03, 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, li

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-04 Thread deloptes
Here are 3 ideas Alan McConnell wrote: > I ran wheezy, but now that I've moved to jessie How did you move to jessie - upgrade or new install? 1. I assume upgrade. Based on this there might be something left over from before - inspect the packages and clean up old packages. 2. The 3 in one com

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-03 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > > I would be very grateful for any aid.  Just to show how bad things > > are:  I try to access  http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get > > the message:  Unable to connect.  

Re: CUPS under jessie

2016-06-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 03 June 2016 21:00:52 Alan McConnell wrote: > I would be very grateful for any aid.  Just to show how bad things > are:  I try to access  http://localhost:631 on my iceweasel and I get > the message:  Unable to connect.    ? ? ? ?    Aaaagghhh!! You said that you purged CUPS. Since