Stuck with Printing Problem

[Ori Idan]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On 12-03-15 11:23 AM, Ori Idan wrote:
>
>> I have no problems with printing although I never tried localhost:631 I am
>> using printers from the setup menu.
>>
>
> IIRC, Ubuntu doesn't use (or stopped using) localhost:631. It has the
> Printing menu entry under Administration for configuring printers.
>
> I did not know there is an alternative interface to cups not using port
631.


>
>  I have heard many horror stories regarding Ubuntu upgrading. I know many
>> people reinstall Ubuntu from scratch instead of upgrading. This can be
>> easily done if you have your /home in a separate partition.
>>
>
> I have heard people saying they have heard stories of problems upgrading
> Ubuntu. When I used to run Fedora I found it was often safer to upgrade it
> by doing a fresh install. If updating from previous release it may be ok
> but if you were skipping a release upgrades tended to be more problematic.
>
> I have had much better luck doing upgrades under Ubuntu. I haven't yet had
> to do a fresh install of Ubuntu to upgrade. The only problems I currently
> have are minor ones and might have been due to my removing all packages
> relating to Unity (in 11.04) then installing packages for Gnome 2 after
> booting 11.04 for the first time and quickly realizing I couldn't live with
> Unity.
>
> I myself also had only minor problems upgrading Ubuntu. I never upgraded
from a release other then the previous one. When I had such a situation I
performed two upgrades, that's of course time consuming but seems to me
safer.
I have read in other mailing lists people telling horror stories about
Ubuntu upgrades.

-- 
Ori Idan
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