Thanks Gapan, I've just run that and I'll see how it beds in over the next week. I'll get back to let you know how I got on.

Ta.
Dave Cox

@laprjns, thanks for the reply, here's a copy as requested:

# Working directory for local storage/cache.
WORKINGDIR=/var/slapt-get
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# [0-9\_\.\-]{1}pre[0-9\-\.\-]{1}
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been using Salix for a while and recently changed laptop so took advantage and installed Salix 14.1_64 (Xfce). Everything has been pretty good, except that over the last 2 weeks Gslapt has constantly swapped between Salix14.1_64 and Salix14.1_64_Slackware14.1 versions of about 35-39 packages ...

Thanks, and done.

Dave.

Can this be marked as solved? TIA.

Thanks all for the suggestions.

It's all fixed now, :) Got in touch with the CUPS user forum (as I said to Gapan I should have done that first, but I was in a but of a panic), Gernot on there passed me on to the Gutenprint guys and the latest version (Gutenprint 5.2.9) supports the MG series of ...

Ouch, that hurt. It must've been International Smack A Newbie Day yesterday . . .

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Hello all,
I'm afraid I'm new to Salix OS and Linux in general, so I apologize if someone has already solved this. Recently my old Canon i865 printer died - I'd managed to easily install it under Cups on Salix OS 13.37 (xfce). I decided to buy another Canon, this time a MG5350 MFD. I've successfully ...