On 11/06/18 21:12, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
On Monday, 11 June 2018 4:46:17 PM AEST Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:
Can someone point me in the right direction, in RPM land I was fine. Probably the best thing in such situations is to tell us exactly what you did with rpm that you are having trouble doing with dpkg/apt.
The apt purge command has been mentioned. You might also be after "dpkg -S /path/filename" and "dpkg -l '*cups*'|cat".
Hi Russell, Thanks for your reply, I successfully purged the 2 debs that I had installed, and then I loaded CUPS to install the "new" printer. I still do not have exactly what I have on my laptop, but I do have a printer that works, now. I am not so desperate to load the scanner drivers a I am still relying on the second-hand Epson 7000S SCSI scanner that I bought ten years ago for $100, Best money I ever spent. I will be stuffed however if I upgrade to a motherboard with no connection for SCSI. The best there was in RPM land was the Mandrake/Mandriva Control Centre, a truly magnificent utility. SuSe had yast which is a poor imitation, and it was OK. In Mandriva one could su to root and then run urpmi om the command line. Anyway, now I am on my photographic journey, well served by GIMP and Darktable which are meant to talk to each other (Also RAWTherapee and GIMP), and this happens in Windows but not in Linux. And it is not an rpm vs deb thing as it did not work in OpenSuSe before I defected. But it may be that because GIMP is now installed via Flatpak that the presence of Darktable is not recognised. But I have a post on that in another thread. Cheers Andrew