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How to downgrade cups-filters on Ubuntu 22.04

I am facing the same problem as the gentleman over here. That is I can't get my printer to print (but I could a few days ago).

I get the same error messages in /var/log/cups/error_log, the only difference being that my printer is a Brother QL-700 (monochrome label printer).

This person suggests to downgrade cups-filters to version 1.26.2 but I just don't know how to proceed because the only available version on the official repo is 1.28.15

$ apt list --all-versions cups-filters
Listing... Done
cups-filters/jammy,now 1.28.15-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]

# I should also mention that
$ apt-cache showpkg cups-filters | grep 1.26
# returns nothing

I am running Ubuntu 22.04.1.

Solution

  • One way around this is to go directly to a repo: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cups-filters/

    and download an older version like: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cups-filters/cups-filters_1.27.4-1_amd64.deb

    then install locally via:

    dpkg -i cups-filters_1.27.4-1_amd64.deb

    but you might then have to sort out any dependency issues manually.