Well, I have some time to work on this one as the system is still useable....but... This is Suse 8.1 with the default installation. A few months ago, I finally got around to defining an IP printer. Actually it is an IBM 4019e that is connected to an OS/2 box with the lpdeamon running. And it worked ok. I had a problem that it would print a garbage page prior to the actual printout. Somewhat like a LPR header. It had 4 lines of output with a line feed, but not a carriage return. But that isn't my current major problem. I tried to fix this problem. Eventually, when going though Control Center for printers, I got "No printing system installed. Choose the spooler to install and configure". I didn't really pay much attention to this message for several iterations of "trying". This is part of my current systems state. When I finally noticed (i.e. read) the message, I tried to install "LPRng". It just comes back to the same "No printing system installed." message. Same thing when selecting "CUPS full server installation". So, I decided to go back to the installation process and reinstall CUPS. Now, I get to the "big" current problem: When I go to "Install or remove software", it pops up with a major dependency conflict. I tried to cut and paste it here, but I couldn't "select", much less "copy". So, here is some things, I typed here: aaa_base 2002.11.5-1 conflict Conflicts with: Realplayer requires /etc/mailcap compat 2002.8.15-20 conflict Confllicts with: java2-jre requires libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 glibc 2.2.5-87 conflict required by: cups-libs requires ld.so.1 ghostscript-x11 requires ls.so.1 + 227 more.... conflicts with: dos2unix requires ld-linux.so.2 inetd requires ld-linux.so.2 + 82 more..... sh-utils 2.0-135 conflict conflicts with: sax2 requires /usr/bin/chroot My assumption is that somehow, a so.2 set of things got installed with the so.1 stuff. Now, I haven't applied any maintenance and the only things that have updated my system were from the installation CDs that came with the box. So, I'm at a loss on why there was a conflict to begin with. The conflict resolution wants to remove all 342 conflicting packages. That kind of sounds like my whole system. So, I will not be doing this until I have a good backup. Unfortunally, the last full backup was 3 months ago. At least that was a valid, operating, system. From a current backup, I should be able to restore all my user files. But hopefully, there is a way around this without a "full reinstall" or "full restore". Eventually, this type of option will not be available. But, perhaps others have hit this problem before and have some guideance. Thanks Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting