Complete reinstallation of CUPS

[jimisdead]

Hi all, I seem to have recently messed up cups on not one but two laptops (client dapper, server breezy) when I setup printer sharing and now neither will print.

First I reverted all the conf files I changed (I think I got them all) and restarted CUPS and then the complete systems with no luck.

Then I used synaptic to do a 'complete uninstall' then a reinstall of the following packages on both computers:

cupsys
cups-pdf
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client
hplip
hplip-data
cupsys-driver-gutenprint

to no avail -


Does anyone have any ideas about what packages should be completely uninstalled to make sure that I get a fully fresh installation of cups?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[sky]

Re: Complete reinstallation of CUPS

Hi,

Maybe you should use apt-get command to remove them and then install back but with an option to also purge your config files...
sudo apt-get remove --purge <package_name>
sudo apt-get install <package_name>

Hope it helped.