Hi!
I tried installing cups and headed outside while it installed, and the installation failed. Now i've tried to fix it but nothing works, so i tried removing it.

I've tried sudo apt-get remove cups
I've done the same command with different alternatives like purge, purge -remove etc etc but nothign works.
Now it tells me i need to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" to manually fix the problem, however when i do this the computer crashes and reboots.
Ive tried manually removing the folder but this didnt work either.
Does anyone know a fix? I cant remove the package or anything

Was it the ARM based version?

I thought Raspbian had cups included in the distro(?).

Probably easiest just to re flash your micro SDHC card.

After, of course, saving off any system configuration files you spent time modifying after the initial install, your "/home/*', etc.

I've not seen apt mess up this badly. What was the error message you saw when it failed? Probably too late to grab the exact text but, in general, what did it complain about? (Surely it wasn't "General MFU. Bye.")

Have you tried forcing the cups installation? Sorry... I'm not near any Debian-based boxes at the moment so I can't look up the way this might be accomplished.

Hi!
I did just as Fatmac said and started from scratch with my computer but the problem persisted.
When i reinstalled it crashed during the installation, which I guess it did when i went out too. The exact error message I got when I ran the apt command was in swedish, and it was:
"E: dpkg avbröts. Du måste köra "sudo dpkg --configure -a" manuellt för att korrigera problemet.
But nothing worked, but randomly I thought, maybe i should unplug my mouse etc because it might be taking too much power when i run the command (i dont know if this was just a coincidence or it actually was the case), and as soon as i did and retried the commands they went through without a crash!

I dont know if this was an actual "fix" or I was just lucky

I assume that the message being in Swedish was normal for you. :^D

Did you, by any chance, note the date/time when CUPS installations were failing? You might get some idea of what went wrong in "/var/log/dpkg.log" (or one of the older log files "/var/log/dpkg.log.1", etc.)

As for the mouse "fix": I can't imagine the mouse drawing so much power that the system would behave like this. But I suppose it could have been at fault if things worked when you unplugged it. Makes me wonder if you'll have future problems if you plug the mouse back in.

Q: Do you power cycle the Pi by unplugging/replugging the power supply from the Pi board or by unplugging the supply from the AC power? I've never liked that mini USB power connector---always seemed too delicate/flaky to me. Perhaps the act of unplugging the mouse "jiggled" your Pi's power cable enough to make an intermittent connection in the power cable or connector "go away" for the time being. I've been unplugging the supply from the AC when I need to power cycle. No wierd system problems. So far, anyway.

Good to hear that you're finally able to print from your Pi.