On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jaakko Ruutiainen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:06, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > This sounds like an update from RH9, where you were using LPRng. > > Probably the best thing to do is remove redhat-switch-printers and LPRng > > RPMs. You might also want to reinstall the CUPS RPM. Then reconfigure. > > Actually update from RH7.3. Can't find any rpms related to > redhat-switch-printer nor LPRng. Reinstalling CUPS rpms had no effect. [mjs@paladin mjs]$ whichcd -v RHL7.3 redhat-switch-printer Searching in the RHL7.3 database. Searching for redhat-switch-printer... CD-3:redhat-switch-printer-0.5.1-2.noarch.rpm CD-3:redhat-switch-printer-gnome-0.5.1-2.noarch.rpm SOURCE-CD-2:redhat-switch-printer-0.5.1-2.src.rpm > So update procedure to FC1 seems to be bit broken in systems using > LPRng, because it's not doing what redhat-switch-printer does(*), while > still removing LPRng and leaving CUPS as the only option. Yes. I'm not sure what a reasonable thing is to expect from the installer in a situation like this. At very least, users could/should be warned in the release notes that they should redhat-switch-printer before upgrading if they are using LPRng. > > * I don't know exactly what redhat-switch-printer does, because I can't > find anything like that from my FC1 or RH7.3 installations. But I think > it basically just makes that relinking described in my previous post. Am > I anywhere near the truth? Exactly right. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
