[SWLUG] lost and got back CUPS then cannot reinstall driver

[Stephen Constantinou]

Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 14 March 2010 17:13, Stephen Constantinou <stephanos at writeme.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Now I am baffled, that two identical versions of CUPS from the same
>> distribution, Kubuntu 9.04, can have differing driver options.
>>
>> On the PC and laptop I have tried to update the cups package using
>>   sudo apt-get cups
>> but I am using the latest version?
>>
> 
> You can use the 'apt-cache policy <packagename>' command on the two
> separate machines to find out which versions of a package are
> available in the repositories.
> 
> It might be that one of the machines has e.g. multiverse disabled, or
> you might have an extra non-Ubuntu repository configured. The command
> I mentioned can help pin down the differences in versions.
> 
> 
> If you have trouble interpreting the output (it is a bit on the
> cryptic side!), reply and someone here should be able to help.
> 
> 
> Cofion/Regards,
> Neil.
> 
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Dear Neil and anyone else

Thanks for the help and here are the results.
I have made comments in ()

 From pc with cups NOT able to list my printer driver
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stephanos at dell:~$ sudo apt-cache policy cups
[sudo] password for stephanos:
cups:
   Installed: 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6 (on the laptop this line says “... 3.4”)
   Candidate: 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6
   Version table:
  *** 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
         500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1.3.9-17ubuntu1 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
stephanos at dell:~$
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 From laptop with cups able to list my printer driver
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stephanos2 at stephanos2-laptop:~$ sudo apt-cache policy cups
[sudo] password for stephanos2:
cups:
   Installed: 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.4 (this is 3.6 on the PC)
   Candidate: 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6
   Version table:
      1.3.9-17ubuntu3.6 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
         500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
  *** 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.4 0 (this one is not in/on the PC?)
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      1.3.9-17ubuntu1 0
         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
stephanos2 at stephanos2-laptop:~$
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Any further help appreciated

Thanks Stephen