Can't print after CUPS update this morning?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 19 09:05:31 UTC 2006
Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 19:34 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>> Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
>>> Same thing here.
>>> Going back to cups-1.1.23-30.2 (and libs) enables printing again.
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 09:17 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>>>
>>>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> Rpm won't permit me to remove and replace, or perhaps I don't know
>> how to tell it to do so?
>>
>> If I use rpm -e it protests about dependencies, and --force only works
>> on installs!
>>
>> How do I undo the update?
>
> By "installing" the older versions:
>
> rpm -Uvh --force cups-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
> cups-libs-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
>
> will do the job.
As is usually the case, --force shouldn't be necessary: --oldpackage
should work just as well and will reveal if there are any dependency
issues (e.g. other packages that also need to be downgraded) with the
action, unlike --force.
Paul.
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