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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 924

[Solved] cups was installed, but no cupsd until I reinstalled it

Maybe I am completely missing something, I probably am. But I tried to start cupsd and there was no script for it on my system. pacman -Qis showed that the most recent cups package (1.5.3.5) was installed. I was scratching my head for a good while.

I finally decided to reinstall the cups package. This also installed several other packages: bc, cups-filters, libsystemd, openjpeg, openslp, poppler, and poppler-data. Now I can start cupsd.

What on earth was going on with my prior cups installation? It seems to have been extremely incomplete.

Tim

PS - I have marked the thread as solved, because it is just a question for info after the solution.

adamrehard

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From: NY, USA

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 154

Re: [Solved] cups was installed, but no cupsd until I reinstalled it

Did you use the -f or -dd flags? That's all I can think of.

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ratcheer

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 924

Re: [Solved] cups was installed, but no cupsd until I reinstalled it

Did you use the -f or -dd flags? That's all I can think of.

No, I just ran "pacman -S cups".

Thanks,
Tim

Last edited by ratcheer (2012-06-16 17:01:34)