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stefano

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 287

Cups fails on implicitclass does not exist [SOLVED]

After the latest update, my cups local system fails to print to a printer connected to a local (LAN)  printserver with the following local status  message for the printer  (visible in the local cups web interface, i.e. localhost:631):

Idle - "File "/usr/lib/cups/backend/implicitclass" not available: No such file or directory"

I have never seen this problem before. What is this implicitclass file that does not seem to exist on my system?

Edit:

Apparently implicitclass was removed from the latest editions of cups-filters (2.0.0-1) which is what is installed on my local system. The print server runs linux-lts and has the 1.28.17-4 version isntalled, which indeed includes the implictclass file missing the local installation.

Should I downgrade cups? Seems a bit risky, but then again, I can't print right now...

Last edited by stefano (2023-10-05 19:47:32)

stefano

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 287

Re: Cups fails on implicitclass does not exist [SOLVED]

So, problem was solved by installing cups-browsed, which indeed includes the missing implicitclass file, and deleting/adding again the remote printer. Actually running cups-browsed caused problems, so I stopped the daemon and everything seems to work now.

I would like to know why this happened, but now that I have a printer working I can also live in blissful ignorance