system-config-printers can't connect to server, cups won't uninstall/reinstall

[mpnordland]

A few days ago out of the blue, cups quit working. I tried restarting it, and different things, but none worked so I thought, I'll just reinstall. No go. for some reason, whenever I try to uninstall it, once it gets to removing cups, it just sits there. Please help.

[mpnordland]

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I need some help here :)[-o<

[siraf]

Here's what I did to break my cups (below is how I fixed it):
I installed xpdf-utils, which un-installed a number of items, including "ubuntu-desktop" which is a meta-package.

I fixed my system by reinstalling "ubuntu-desktop":

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

if that doesn't work, try:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop --reinstall

and if that still doesn't work, try installing these:


sudo apt-get install bluez-cups cups cups-driver-gutenprint cups-common ghostscript-cups hplip poppler-utils

I sincerely hope that helps. PM me if it doesn't.