On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 21:31:24 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote: > > > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > [Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.] > > > > > > > Blame that in tbird. > > Yet another part of the compting experience tou are unable to > > control? > > > > > I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly cannot be > > > > > deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work, > > > > > preventing me from using the printer at all. > > > > > > > > > > So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate package > > > > > that is removable? cups doesn't even offer to disable this > > > > > non-working garbage. Thanks for any good clues. > > > > Driverless printing is only possible when avahi-daemon is on the > > > > system. Your solution is obvious. > > > > > > > avahi-daemon 0.8-5 is installed. > > Is this the avahi-daemon that, in the past, you have characterised as > > unfit to be used on a local network and that didn't deserve any of > > your disk space. > True, but that is all, none of its kin is. And I did find out how to defeat > it. But > when I went to look, that file has vanished and its still working. > > So what happened that got /etc/dhcpcd.conf removed? > It had a fallback stanza near the bottom that I had edited in > the default eth0 config. That finally got rid of the totally bogus > 169.xx.yy.zz > routing address. Now the file is gone, and its still working.
Good. > > > See the ppd driverless attached to my > > > previous msg it just now made. > > > It looks busted to me. > > Broken files are best not used. Remove and follow my previos advice. > > > I have. and cups brings it back automatically on the restart that does. > Probably > 20 times I've deleted it. Its back before I can look to see if its gone. That is cups-browsed doing auto-setup. As far as you are concerned that is its sole job. It doesn't do anything else for you or the printing system. Therefore: apt purge cups-browsed -- Brian.
