Hello everyone. I have been trying to install a verity of programs that depend on libgtk2.0-0. However, libgtk2.0-0 will not install until it has a certain version of libcups2. gNewSense has libcupsys2 and not libcups2. It would appear that at a certain point libcupsys2 became lubcups2 as the developers continued developing the package. However, when I try to install libcups2 from a deb package; it doesn't work. Some versions open the black error box and say nothing. Others say something along the lines that libcupsys2 is conflicting with libcups2.

Does anyone know a way past this conflicting situation wherein libcupsys2 is blocking libcups2 from installing? Thank you.

I contacted someone and they told me an answer.

It seems in gNewSense on way is to unistal libcupsys2, and everything them depends on it. Install libcups2. Then re-install everything back again that depended on libcupsys2.

No one has yet given me a better solution within gNewSense nor do I know of one. Last time I looked at gNewSense 2.3 it was still this way. However, it may have changed. I hope future gNewSense releases address this as a very large number of programs do depend on libcupsys2 and it would be a very tedious switch this way.

With no disrepect to gNewSense, if people still want to use 100% Free Software and have libcups2 from the start and not have to do this process, Trisquel 3.0 has this already set up and is what I am currently using. Though, the older Trisquel 2.2.1 (last I checked) is based off of what I think the current gNewSense is; and is also still running libcupsys2.

Again, not critical to the system operatin. However, many newer programs demand libgtk2.0-0 and that won't install without libcups2 and that won't install (as far as I know and can easily figure out) without gutting out almost every program from the system, install libcups2, then re-installing all the programs you gutted, manually, from Terminal.

No disrespect, and may the Freedom be with you.