Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> writes: > On 3/4/17, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >> On Sat 04 Mar 2017 at 18:18:03 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> In order to print, I used to do: >>> >>> # aptitude install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client libcupsimage2 >>> cups-driver-gutenprint cupsys-driver-gutenprint gs-esp >>> >>> , but now cupsys seems not to exist any more. Please, what packages now >>> should >>> I install in place of those above? I'm running Sid. >> >> cupsys disappeared many, many moons ago. You want >> >> apt-get install cups > > > Brian's answers are always wonderfully short. Yay, him! :D > > What I do for something like this (when I don't know something like > that cupsys is no longer) is I go down the line trying to install the > various packages by themselves, too. Sometimes (aka *not always*) that > will trigger my favored package manager to install the newer version > replacement as part of the dependency functions of the various package > installers... > > When that doesn't work, I regress to attempting a package manager > query using only outstanding pieces of the name (e.g. "gutenprint") > related to whatever package appears to no longer be available. > > AND/OR.... > > Another angle of attack is to query for the "depends" and "rdepends" > (reverse depends) of any notable package names among the list I might > be trying to install. An example is that i just tried > "printer-driver-gutenprint": > > +++++++++++ > > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache depends printer-driver-gutenprint > printer-driver-gutenprint > Depends: libc6 > Depends: libcups2 > Depends: libcupsimage2 > Depends: libgutenprint2 > Depends: libusb-1.0-0 > Depends: cups > Depends: cups-client > |Depends: cups-filters > Depends: <ghostscript-cups> > Suggests: gutenprint-doc > Suggests: gutenprint-locales > > candycane@northpole:~$ apt-cache rdepends printer-driver-gutenprint > printer-driver-gutenprint > Reverse Depends: > gutenprint-doc > printer-driver-all-enforce > printer-driver-all > cups > parl-desktop-strict > cups-daemon > > +++++++++++ > > Just thinking out loud........ Most definitely not as succinctly as > Brian. *indubitably* > > Cindy :)
Well, he only answered to my first question... ;-) thanks, Rodolfo