Steve's downgrade also works in Fedora 8, except AFAIK the downgrade must be accomplished by hand with rpm. I'm also not aware of how to keep F8 from trying to "upgrade" cups, except clearing the checkbox whenever it asks me to do so.
I'm leaving this comment for the googlers trying, like me, to solve this problem. I'm amazed it seems like such a low priority for Sun. -- Printing from Java does not work at all in Gutsy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156191 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs