cupsys going, going, GONE from Debian

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dibl
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cupsys going, going, GONE from Debian

Post by dibl »

It appears that the TurboPrint driver installer has a hardwired dependency on the cupsys package (I'm using ver. 2.12). While there is still a "transitional" cupsys package in Debian Lenny, it is gone from Sid/Squeeze, and is superseded by the new cups package.

A poor-quality workaround, for people like me running a Sid system, is to install the transitional cupsys package from the Lenny repo, and then to install the TurboPrint driver. But this leaves an outdated CUPS system in place on the system, and will cause other issues, I'm sure.

A better solution would be to update the driver installer to look for the cups package, as well as the cupsys package.

Thanks!
zedonet
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Post by zedonet »

Hello,

this has already been fixed in TurboPrint 2.16

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Depends: libc6, libglib2.0-0, libx11-6, libxext6, libxi6, libgtk2.0-0, cupsys | cups
If you want to install an older version of TurboPrint, you can also use the .tgz download available on ftp://ftp.zedonet.com/tp2
dibl
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Post by dibl »

Aha -- I searched but couldn't find anything about that.

OK, thank you very much for a speedy response -- time to upgrade!
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