Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 16:16:43 +0100 (CET) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.net> To: Vittorio <v.demartino2@virgilio.it> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to fix the printing system Message-ID: <20050309161248.D24446@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <200503091333.54083.v.demartino2@virgilio.it> References: <200503091333.54083.v.demartino2@virgilio.it>
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Vittorio wrote: > As a newbye having a go at FreeBSD 5.3 I made a mess with the printing systems > so that now commands such as lpr, lpq, etc are said by the OS to be > "ambiguous" and nothing works any longer. > As a matter of fact, using the ports, I have compiled and installed LPRng, > apsfilter, cups, magicfilter over and over again, and now in the > various ../bin or ../sbin dir I find at list a couple of lpr, lpc, lpr, and > so on. In /var/db/pkg you will find a small directory for each port you ever installed. Check it and type # pkg_delete port_name for each that you wish to delete. You also might have to use -r, -R or -f options. Have a look at # man pkg_delete before you start. Good Luck, Uli. > > Now I'd like to turn back to the original installation situation, cleaning > everything is useless (In a nutshell a would go back to a LPD printing > system alone) ** without ** reinstalling FreeBSD from scratch (I compiled > also kde). > > Could you please suggest a correct procedure to do it? > > Ciao > Vittorio > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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