On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, balaji sivanath <[email protected]> wrote: > hi. > I am having canon LBP2900B model printer and using ubuntu 10.04. > downloaded driver for my model from canon site. download consists of > cndrvcups-common.deb,cndrvcups-capt.deb files. > when installing cups-common got this.
[...snip...] > on google i found that libcupsys2 renamed as libcups2, but the > cups-common drives needs to satisfy libcupsys2 dependency. > now on google found "we have to satisfy libcupsys2 name dependency > only and it is not functionally needed,so download and install dummy > package libcupsys2 from security.ubuntu.com." > downloaded libcupsys2 and tried to install. then > [...snip...] > > libcups2 conflicts with libcupsys2, i tried to remove libcups2 and > install libcupsys2 but libcups2 is needed for lot of other > applications. so i cant remove libcups2. > > What can i do now? What can you do now? Are there alternatives for installing the exact printer driver? I have never used CUPS for printing. Well I have never owned a personal printer till now. Try LPRng. Try LDP. $ nc -v $printerip 515 Is it a USB printer with no Ethernet port? Can you install some other generic driver? Perhaps it is a postscript printer? I think normally only high end printers support postscript. The other thing is that normally in a Debian system(on which *buntu is based), once you get dependency problems you are mostly on your own. It is a tall order and their package management system though the best in the Linux world is quite a sore area. Moreover Debian suffers from oldness. Not sure about Ubuntu though. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
