"Randolph S. Kahle" wrote: > > I may have messed up my package database...
ximian may have messed it up too. I find that it's a good idea to stay away from ximian and use the gnome stuff from the Debian archives. Ximian writes great stuff but they don't do a very good job packaging it so it creates conflicts a lot. > > I installed CUPS (1.0.4-9) via Ximian RedCarpet. That went fine. > <snip> > How can I get rid of CUPS so that I > can do a clean re-install? > I'd try this: $apt-cache search cups This will list a bunch of packages. Figure out which ones are installed by doing: $dpkg --status <package_name> if this tells you that the package is installed you can: #dpkg -r --purge <package_name> This (long process) should remove cups from your system. I'd also recommend getting rid of Ximain and installing Gnome from the Debian .debs. It really does eliminate a lot of headaches. later, Andy P.S. I haven't used Ximian in a while but from the type of packaging error your getting I'm assuming they still haven't figured out how to package things properly.
