[Techtalk] printer help needed

[Conni]

On Apr 27, Pierre Fortin conjectured:

> I don't have a USB printer, so I can't help with that; but I have both
> cups and lpr installed and use either one at will.  
> 
> Have you tried CUPS via http://localhost:631 to setup your printer?  It's
> pretty easy and works well enough that I rarely see complaints these days.

Unfortunately, I can't even get CUPS installed to run the setup.  I tried
both the source and an rpm (an older version), and neither will install if
the other print junk is floating around.  And I can't get the other print
junk deleted.

How did you get it to work?

I just tried to install the rpm, and here's what happened:

[root at elbereth rpms]# rpm -ivh cups-1.0.5-linux-2.0.36-intel.rpm 
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
file /usr/bin/cancel from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/bin/lp from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/bin/lpq from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/bin/lpr from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/bin/lprm from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/bin/lpstat from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
file /usr/sbin/lpc from install of cups-1.0.5-1 conflicts with file from
package LPRng-3.7.4-28
error: db3 error(-30998) from db->close: DB_INCOMPLETE: Cache flush was
unable to complete
rpmdb: Overflow page 2746 of invalid type
error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database
verification failed
[root at elbereth rpms]# rpm -q cups
package cups is not installed

When I tried installing from source, the executable wasn't installed; or I
couldn't find the executable.  I did a 'locate cups' and there was a file
called cupsomatic, but there was no cupsd anywhere, and all the other
files were in /usr/share/docs.

Conni

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