Well I took the bite and upgraded from 13.2 all the way to 42.2 as Tumbleweed. For the most part it has gone well, or well enough. I have a few complaints about the look and feel; "Oxygen" isn't the same and the GTK3 took some tweaking to bring back the end arrows on the scroll bars. I haven't figured that for the rest of KDE. But a show-stopper is the printer. It worked fine and was set up with no problems in 13.2 but won't function in 42.2/Tumbleweed. The 5170DN is a postscript printer and I seem to recall reading that the new openSuse standard is for the print system to be PDF based not postscript based. I don't know how to get round that. Well OK I could if this was a pure UNIX SVR2 but it isn't, its CUPS. I also saw mention that the PPD/drivers were 32-bit. The 13.2 system was 64-bit but that worked. OK, so I put back the libstdc++6-32bit and restarted CUPS. Still no joy. I deleted the printers and reinstalled using YAST. This is a network connected printer. From within YAST the test page prints OK, but I then subsequently can't print from any application or use 'lp' to print any page as I once could. ----------------- Considering the postscript/PDF change I've considered :- a) use the print dialogue to save the page as a .ps in /tmp b) use netcat to squirt the .ps to port 515 of the printer. No, that can't be right, surely there's a handshake/dialogue/wrapper? ----------------- Have I been misled? Am I making some wrong assumptions? In the past CUPS and Yast have "just worked" and I've never had any problems. Perhaps I should have stuck with 13.2 despite the EOL. After all, it worked and I had no complaints. I'm not sure that I can roll back not that the various repositories have been deleted. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org