Can't print after CUPS update this morning?

[Paul Howarth]

Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 19:34 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>> Henry Ritzlmayr wrote: 
>>> Same thing here. 
>>> Going back to cups-1.1.23-30.2 (and libs) enables printing again. 
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 18.05.2006, 09:17 -0400 schrieb Bob Goodwin:
>>>   
>>>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>> Rpm won't permit me to remove and replace,  or perhaps I don't know
>> how to tell it to do so?
>>
>> If I use rpm -e it protests about dependencies, and --force only works
>> on installs!
>>
>> How do I undo the update?  
> 
> By "installing" the older versions:
> 
> rpm -Uvh --force cups-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
> cups-libs-1.1.23-30.2.i386.rpm
> 
> will do the job.

As is usually the case, --force shouldn't be necessary: --oldpackage 
should work just as well and will reveal if there are any dependency 
issues (e.g. other packages that also need to be downgraded) with the 
action, unlike --force.

Paul.