Answered my own stupid questions, but will pass along what I did and what I learned for the benefit of the other brain-challenged, frustrated, non-printing fools...
The latest (as of Saturday night, 8/19/2006) code from cups.org already has the patches applied. Had they not been, I discovered a nifty little tool called, apropriately, patch, that would have applied the changes needed. I should have known. Anyhow, the reason the new code didn't work for me at first was that I had about eleven (exaggeration) flavors of cupsys* packages installed on my knoppix/debian system. I purged them all, and on seeing that the purge didn't get rid of my /etc/cups folder, moved said folder completely out of harms way. Oh yeah, I was sure to stop the running cups services before the purge. One more make intstall in the code folder, started the service, installed an ipp printer, printed a test page and shed a tear of joy. All is well, patch does indeed work as advertised. Thanks to all in this post, I'd have been dead in the water without you. Steve -- cupsys won't print octet-stream https://launchpad.net/bugs/43145 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
