BricsCAD Installation Error
I downloaded and tried to install the latest Linux version of BricsCAD (BricscadClassic-V10.4.4-1-en_US.deb) on my computer. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.
When I do, I get the following error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libcups2
Any suggestions?
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$apt-get install cups
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No luck with installing cups. I typed "sudo apt-get install cups" and got the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package cups is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package cups has no installation candidateWould it be easier to upgrade to v10.4 ubuntu?
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I'm guessing the Bricscad .deb package has been built on a later release of Ubuntu, and that your 8.04 doesn't have the prerequisites (existing package versions are too old)...
But upgrading to 10.04 LTS might bring a whole slew of other problems, so you should think hard about doing that. 8.04 will be supported till April 2011, and 8.04 LTS users are advised to wait for the 10.04.1 update due in July to make the upgrade.
You could try the .tar.gz archive instead, you may have better luck.
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can you give an output of
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/etc/init.d/cups status
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You can try from shell:
1) sudo apt-get install -f
2) sudo apt-get install cups
Or:
From Synaptic, you can:
1) activate proposed backports (from settings menu)
2) You must find cups, select it and install.
Synaptics is a fantastic .deb package manager. If you have no experienced with command line, you can try it. Another options of Synaptic is "repair demaged packaged".
Bye
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