cannot open system/admin/printing, cups errors, cups server could not be contacted...

[Phillip Crumm]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, gerhard wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:30 -0700, Phillip Crumm wrote:
>>> I tried uninstalling cups through synaptic and was unable to, it said
>>> that there were errors and they needed to be fixed first, but when I
>>> tried to fix, it said it was unable to fix.
>>
>> You could try "dpkg -r cups" -- if nothing else, it may be able to give
>> you a slightly more helpful error message (or, if you got one, what was
>> it?)
>>
>>> I keep getting the "cups server could not be contacted" [snip]
>>
>> That probably means you have it listening in the wrong place. Exactly what
>> did you change in the configuration file? What error message(s) are you
>> getting? Is that is specific as they get?
>>
> I cant remember what I changes and just followed documentation on how to
> install a network printer through cups.  I am new to linux/ubuntu. I
> dont get error message just that cups server could not be contacted when
> I go to system/admin/printing. I cant even setup my local printer and
> get the same message
>
> "dpkg -r cups" I get this
> dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove cups which isn't installed.
That would indicate cups isn't installed... try going to localhost:631 and 
see if anything comes up.