Sorry I misunderstood the problem. The reason I'd not been effected by this bug is that I just know my HP printer always requires the package 'hplip', and 'avahi-daemon' automatically gets installed along with 'hplip' since it's in the "recommends".
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to system-config-printer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1133794 Title: Printer not detected by system-config-printer 1.3.11 in Lubuntu 13.04 Status in “system-config-printer” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 1) Raring daily Lubuntu 13.04 i386 2) system-config-printer 1.3.11 3) I expected the printer to be detected without a cups error. The printer was not detected. 4) 1) When selecting Printer from the System Tools menu the Printers-localhost dialog box appears with the following message. 'Printing service not available. Start the service on this computer or connect to another server.' 2) After clicking the connect button once the 'Connect to CUPS server' box appears. 3) After clicking the connect button on this message box the Cups server error box appears with the following dialog. There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'failed to connect to server'. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: system-config-printer-gnome 1.3.11+20120807-0ubuntu13 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-7.15-generic 3.8.0 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-7-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.330 CurrentDmesg: Date: Wed Feb 27 01:04:06 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/system-config-printer/system-config-printer.py InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha i386 (20130226) Lpstat: Error: command ['lpstat', '-v'] failed with exit code 1: lpstat: Transport endpoint is not connected MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all Papersize: a4 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/username.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- persistent BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern SourcePackage: system-config-printer UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2005 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1024.001 dmi.board.name: P4C800-E dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890 dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1024.001:bd08/04/2005:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnP4C800-E:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion: dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-config-printer/+bug/1133794/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp