How to fix the printing system

[Peter Ulrich Kruppa]

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
>
>
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