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adamk

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Registered: 2006-03-09

Posts: 36

libcups conflicts with existing cups setup ?

When I try to upgrade libgtk (to try and solve a 'unable to locate theme engine...' in gtk) it requires libcups to be upgraded - 1.2.7-1

But when it tries to install libcups, It reports:

error: the following file conflicts were found:
  libcups: /usr/bin/cups-config: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/cups.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/http.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/image.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/ipp.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/language.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/md5.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/ppd.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/include/cups/raster.h: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/lib/libcups.so: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/lib/libcups.so.2: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so: exists in filesystem
  libcups: /usr/lib/libcupsimage.so.2: exists in filesystem

Why is there a conflict here with an existing cups installation ? I've got these packages
installed:

[root@adamscomputer adam]# pacman -Qs cups
local/cups 1.1.23-5
    The CUPS Printing System
local/libgnomecups 0.2.2-2
    GNOME cups library
local/libgnomeprint-cups 2.12.1-2
    Printing routines for GNOME

   THanks.

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Adam Krolnik
Co-author "Assertion-Based Design"

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: libcups conflicts with existing cups setup ?

I believe that the reason for these error is that, several months ago, the cups package was splitted into cups and libcups. Check  if these files belongs to cups. If so, update both cups and libcups:
# pacman -S cups
# pacman -S libcups

adamk

Member

Registered: 2006-03-09

Posts: 36

Re: libcups conflicts with existing cups setup ?

Should I back up my cups files first?

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Adam Krolnik
Co-author "Assertion-Based Design"

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: libcups conflicts with existing cups setup ?

Which cups files do you mean? The stuff in /etc/cups shouldn't get overwritten when upgrading. Probably take a look at the .pacnew files afterwards and see http://localhost:631/ to verify your setup still works.

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