Hi all,

I used CUPS for few months on a Debian machine (about 5 months ago). Since I had formatting problems with a big HP plotter (DJ1050) I turned to the company that develops CUPS (ESP) for help.
I had to install their software but after 3 Months of trying they didn't manage to solve my problem :-/

Today I tried to uninstall their software so I could use CUPS again (since I only had a trial licenses). The problem is: I can't reinstall CUPS!

What did I try?
1.apt-get install cupsys
---> than I get: Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10
Suggested packages:
cupsys-bsd cupsys-driver-gimpprint foomatic-bin foomatic-filters-ppds
xpdf-korean xpdf-japanese xpdf-chinese-traditional xpdf-chinese-simplified
cups-pdf hplip
Recommended packages:
gs-esp cupsys-client smbclient
The following packages will be REMOVED:
printpro-abdick printpro-apollo printpro-autologic printpro-brother
printpro-calcomp printpro-colossal printpro-compaq printpro-crosfield
printpro-cyclone printpro-dataproducts printpro-digital printpro-dupont
printpro-genicom printpro-hitachi printpro-indigo printpro-infotec
printpro-kyocera printpro-laserpress printpro-lexmark printpro-linotronic
printpro-majestik printpro-minolta printpro-minoltaqms printpro-mitsubishi
printpro-monotype printpro-panasonic printpro-panther printpro-pictura
printpro-platemaker printpro-samsung printpro-scitex printpro-screen
printpro-shinko printpro-splash printpro-tektronix printpro-typhoon
printpro-unisys printpro-varityper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cupsys libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 38 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
38 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/9086kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
when I coose Y I get: Removing printpro-varityper ...
/etc/init.d/cups: line 168: /usr/sbin/cupsd: No such file or directory
cups: unable to restart scheduler.
dpkg: error processing printpro-varityper (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
printpro-abdick
printpro-apollo
printpro-autologic
printpro-brother
printpro-calcomp
printpro-colossal
printpro-compaq
printpro-crosfield
printpro-cyclone
printpro-dataproducts
printpro-digital
printpro-dupont
printpro-genicom
printpro-hitachi
printpro-indigo
printpro-infotec
printpro-kyocera
printpro-laserpress
printpro-lexmark
printpro-linotronic
printpro-majestik
printpro-minolta
printpro-minoltaqms
printpro-mitsubishi
printpro-monotype
printpro-panasonic
printpro-panther
printpro-pictura
printpro-platemaker
printpro-samsung
printpro-scitex
printpro-screen
printpro-shinko
printpro-splash
printpro-tektronix
printpro-typhoon
printpro-unisys
printpro-varityper
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I've shortened the messege but it is the same for all packages

2. Than I tried:
apt-get -f install
but I get the same messege

3. Than I tought I should delete the packages by my own:
dpkg --remove printpro-unisys

got the same error here too...

So my questions:
1. What is wrong?
2. How can I install CUPS again??

Many thanks for any tips!

Dekers

if I try to open usr/sbin/cupsd with winSCP I get the following:
Cannot open remote file '/usr/sbin/cupsd'.
No such file or directory.
Error code: 2
Error message from server: No such file
Request code: 3

But I can see the file... wait... I can see it is a link to a different file but it has a red arrow instead of the normal white arrow...

he?

Dekers

it seems to me like cupsd is simply missing...
Because of that apt-get fails to remove some packages before the installation.

I tried it with the -f (fix-broken) flag but nothing there

Anyone got an idea?

Dekers

this is what I get if I run apt-cache show printpro-unisys:

ztlx05:~# apt-cache show printpro-unisys
Package: printpro-unisys
Status: deinstall ok half-installed
Maintainer: Easy Software Products
Architecture: i386
Version: 4.5.10
Config-Version: 4.5.10
Depends: printpro
Description: ESP Print Pro
Copyright: 1993-2005 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved.
UNISYS printer drivers

so is it half-uninstalled??

Dekers

The /usr/sbin/cupsd file is linked to the file 'cupsd-nopam'

Could one of you maybe look to which file his cupsd file is pointing? Maybe I could re-point the link the the correct file in case uninstalling stuff messed up the link...

Thas would be great!

Thanks, Dekers

when I run 'locate cup' I find cupsd-nopam in /usr/sbin/ but when I go there - I can't find any trace to this file. When is wrong here??

Dekers