[vox-tech] CUPS Doen't Work on Debian

[Bill Kendrick]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:03:29PM -0500, Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:41:16AM -0700, Bob Scofield wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 July 2006 09:15, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > What version are you using? 1.2.1-3 "Fixes wrong command line
> > > arguments to backend. (closes: #372586, #373839)" which caused this
> > > kind of problem in 1.2.1-2.
> > >
> > > I can't see why you'd get a broken version if you upgraded today
> > > though.
> > 
> > The way I know how to find out a version number is type in
> > "localhost:631" and read the CUPS page.  My CUPS page says the
> > version is 1.2.1.
> > 
> > Thanks for trying to help.
> 
> dpkg -l cupsys

Indeed.  The versions Ken was talking about (1.2.1-2 and 1.2.1-3) are both
based on CUPS 1.2.1, and hence that's what CUPS will report.  However, those
"-2" and "-3" correspond to which _package_ (from Debian) of that version of
CUPS.  In other words, they've packaged it 3 times, now. ;)

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