Ubuntu
system-config-printer package

  1. Bug #653132
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 653132

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Eric Anderson (kluwak) wrote :

I'm seeing a very similar problem. I ran into this both upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10 and then from 13.10 to trusty. Specifically, I see the following:

Setting up cups (1.7.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Updating PPD files for cups ...
Updating PPD files for foomatic-db-compressed-ppds ...
Password for root on localhost?
Password for root on localhost?
Password for root on localhost?
Password for root on localhost?
[Repeated in response to any input I supply, including ^c and ^d. ]

The only "solution" I found was to kill the installation process, manually remove foomatic-db-compressed-ppds, and then attempt to resume the installation with dpkg and apt-get directly.