Cups DNF dependencies

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I may have made a stupid mistake today. I say “may” because I at least saved my machine from being so messed up I would have had to reinstall it. What happened was that my Fedora-35 box became frozen up and would not budge under any circumstances that hit the power button.

This would have worked, but on reboot, flashing by quickly in red and white letters, was something about “CUPS”. Therefore I went into emergency maintenance mode and removed cups with “dnf erase cups”. Unfortunately, I failed to write down all the dependencies the went away with CUPS.

So, with my humble hat in my hand, I would like to ask if anyone knows what those dependencies are, or how to find out. I can’t even run system-config-printer and my job rests on printing at the end of a shift.

Any help, thanks in advance.

BryGuy

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you should just be able to dnf install cups

edit … thanks @ilikelinux I should’ve thought about this more

sudo dnf rq --whatrequires cups

will get you what depends on it
…

if removing cups is the last thing you did you can get the list of things you removed by:
sudo dnf history list last info

or

sudo dnf history list --reverse
find the line with cups, and get the transaction number

sudo dnf history info <transaction number>

will also give you the the packages that were removed.

Then you can either install by hand

or

sudo dnf history undo <transaction number>

sorry about that

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I would have said the same as @grumpey , i made it on my machine and aborted the remove:

================================================================================
 Package                 Arch    Version                Repository         Size
================================================================================
Removing:
 cups                    x86_64  1:2.3.3op2-10.fc35     @updates          7.6 M
Removing dependent packages:
 bluez-cups              x86_64  5.62-2.fc35            @updates           48 k
 cups-filters            x86_64  1.28.10-1.fc35         @updates-testing  2.6 M
 foomatic                x86_64  4.0.13-21.fc35         @fedora           827 k
 foomatic-db-ppds        noarch  4.0-72.20210611.fc35   @fedora            77 M
 gutenprint-cups         x86_64  5.3.4-5.fc35           @updates          1.0 M
 hplip                   x86_64  3.21.2-13.fc35         @updates           26 M
Removing unused dependencies:
 cups-filesystem         noarch  1:2.3.3op2-10.fc35     @updates            0  
 cups-filters-libs       x86_64  1.28.10-1.fc35         @updates-testing  327 k
 cups-ipptool            x86_64  1:2.3.3op2-10.fc35     @updates          4.4 M
 foomatic-db             noarch  4.0-72.20210611.fc35   @fedora           9.5 M
 foomatic-db-filesystem  noarch  4.0-72.20210611.fc35   @fedora             0  
 hplip-common            x86_64  3.21.2-13.fc35         @updates          1.3 M
 hplip-libs              x86_64  3.21.2-13.fc35         @updates          463 k
 libsane-hpaio           x86_64  3.21.2-13.fc35         @updates          190 k
 net-snmp-libs           x86_64  1:5.9.1-7.fc35         @fedora           3.1 M
 poppler-cpp             x86_64  21.08.0-1.fc35         @fedora           118 k
 poppler-utils           x86_64  21.08.0-1.fc35         @fedora           680 k
 qpdf-libs               x86_64  10.3.2-2.fc35          @fedora           1.7 M

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Remove  19 Packages
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Thank you both very much! I followed the dependency trail, and ended up with a fully functioning CUPS system. I couldn’t have done it without you.

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