Re: Printing packages

From	Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Printing packages
Date	2017-03-04 21:20 +0100
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On Saturday 04 March 2017 19:53:39 Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 3/4/17, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Sat 04 Mar 2017 at 18:18:03 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >>> In order to print, I used to do:
> >>>
> >>>  # aptitude install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsimage2
> >>> cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint gs-esp
> >>>
> >>> , but now cupsys seems not to exist any more.  Please, what packages
> >>> now should
> >>> I install in place of those above?  I'm running Sid.
> >>
> >> cupsys disappeared many, many moons ago. You want
> >>
> >>   apt-get install cups
> >
> > Brian's answers are always wonderfully short. Yay, him! :D
> >
> > What I do for something like this (when I don't know something like
> > that cupsys is no longer) is I go down the line trying to install the
> > various packages by themselves, too. Sometimes (aka *not always*) that
> > will trigger my favored package manager to install the newer version
> > replacement as part of the dependency functions of the various package
> > installers...
> >
> > When that doesn't work, I regress to attempting a package manager
> > query using only outstanding pieces of the name (e.g. "gutenprint")
> > related to whatever package appears to no longer be available.
> >
> > AND/OR....
> >
> > Another angle of attack is to query for the "depends" and "rdepends"
> > (reverse depends) of any notable package names among the list I might
> > be trying to install. An example is that i just tried
> > "printer-driver-gutenprint":
> >
> > +++++++++++
> >
> > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache depends printer-driver-gutenprint
> > printer-driver-gutenprint
> >   Depends: libc6
> >   Depends: libcups2
> >   Depends: libcupsimage2
> >   Depends: libgutenprint2
> >   Depends: libusb-1.0-0
> >   Depends: cups
> >   Depends: cups-client
> >
> >  |Depends: cups-filters
> >
> >   Depends: <ghostscript-cups>
> >   Suggests: gutenprint-doc
> >   Suggests: gutenprint-locales
> >
> > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache rdepends printer-driver-gutenprint
> > printer-driver-gutenprint
> > Reverse Depends:
> >   gutenprint-doc
> >   printer-driver-all-enforce
> >   printer-driver-all
> >   cups
> >   parl-desktop-strict
> >   cups-daemon
> >
> > +++++++++++
> >
> > Just thinking out loud........ Most definitely not as succinctly as
> > Brian. *indubitably*
> >
> > Cindy :)
>
> Well, he only answered to my first question... ;-)
>
> thanks,
>
> Rodolfo

Why, since you are using aptitude, not keep things simple? You actually want 
to run CUPS, so <$ aptitude search cups>, then gulp and <$aptitude search 
cups | less.>, which will give you all the packages with cups in the name.

Or in Jessie, <$aptitude show cups>, but for that you need to know, or try 
guessing, that cups is a meta-package, which it may not be in Sid.  So start 
with aptitude search and read patiently through what it says.

Lisi

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Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 19:20 +0100
  Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 19:30 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 20:10 +0100
      Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:00 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:20 +0100
          Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-03-04 23:00 +0100
              Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 23:50 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:00 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 19:30 +0100
                Re: Correction: Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:00 +0100
          Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-04 21:40 +0100
            Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-04 22:40 +0100
              Re: Printing packages Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 00:10 +0100
                Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 08:10 +0100
        Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 16:00 +0200
  Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:10 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-05 21:50 +0100
    Re: Printing packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-05 22:00 +0100
      `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-07 16:50 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message (was: Printing packages) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-07 18:10 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 22:10 +0100
            Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-12 00:30 +0100
              Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-13 17:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2017-03-13 20:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:00 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-20 19:30 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-25 13:10 +0100
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-26 22:00 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 23:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 00:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 08:50 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 13:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 15:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 17:10 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 18:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-27 19:30 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-27 20:20 +0200
                Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-13 21:10 +0100
        Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-03-25 14:30 +0100
          Re: `Filter failed' no print error message Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-03-26 19:50 +0200

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