On 2016-06-03, Alan McConnell <a...@his.com> 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. > > How do I make sure that my system is cups-clean, before I reinstall? > > [ Background: I have a Canon 4770n three-in-one, connected to my > computer by a USB cable. It is a very handsome piece of machinery, > it worked fine when I ran wheezy, but now that I've moved to jessie, > the printing part doesn't work at all. However, the scanning capability > works just fine, as does the copying, which is of course independent of > the computer. ] > > 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. ? ? ? ? Aaaarrrrgghhh!! > > Alan >
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS/Troubleshooting#Problems_resulting_from_upgrades Who knows, might help, if you haven't already explored solutions less radical than outright expurgation. -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
