On Sat 04 Mar 2017 at 20:12:49 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > 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.
Good advice and I know you like to learn things too. cups is not a metapackage. Removing a metapackage does not remove the packages it installed. Try apt-get purge cups Don't say "yes"! -- Brian.
