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fbusse
August 29th, 2018, 07:55 AM
After update (with no error noticed), printing to PDF fails: Jobs are accepted, but not executed. The printer queue window show the error message (see screen shot)

File "/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" unavailable: No such file or directory
(translation from German might not exactly fit to the original English text)

... and before you ask: There is indeed no such file or directory.

My search for hints to solve the problem gave no results, so far - any idea, here? (Answers to the parallel requests at the German fora ubuntuusers.de (https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/nach-update-auf-18-04-cups-pdf-defekt/#post-9000986) and kubuntu-de.org (http://forum.kubuntu-de.org/index.php?topic=19285.0) will be forwarded.)

fbusse
August 29th, 2018, 08:45 AM
sudo apt-get install --reinstall printer-driver-cups-pdf
solved the problem - thanks to Kellerkind_2009 at ubuntuusers.de (https://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/nach-update-auf-18-04-cups-pdf-defekt/#post-9001002)!