On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:59 -0400, Bryan K. Wright wrote: > Hi folks, > > balay@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > > - CUPS obsoletes LPRng - so if using apt - it will always prompt to > > remove LPRng. (i just stick with yum) > > I find that if I do the following, both CUPS and LPRng seem > to run fine: > > rpm -e cups --nodeps > rpm -i LPRng-3.8.27-1.i386.rpm --replacefiles > rpm -i cups-1.1.20-11.1.i386.rpm > > (The "--replacefiles" is necessary because the LPRng package I'm using > has two file conflicts: /etc/printcap from setup-2.5.33-1 and > /usr/share/man/man1/monitor.1.gz from perl-SGI-FAM-1.002-1.) > Or, you could use: rpm -i --excludepath /etc/printcap --excludepath /usr/share/man/man1/ monitor.1.gz LPRng-3.8.27-1.i386.rpm > There's still a problem, though: If, instead of using rpm to > re-install cups, I use "yum install cups" the install procedure ends > up by un-installing LPRng. The same thing happens if I install an > earlier version of cups, then do a "yum update cups". This leads > me to believe that LPRng will be nuked the next time I do a "yum update". > Don't know about yum, but in apt, you can try adding the package to the Ignore or Hold rules in /etc/apt/apt.conf.
