On Saturday 04 March 2017 19:53:39 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > > On 3/4/17, Brian <a...@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
