cups < 1.5

[barongas]

I've been trying to install my printer which is a Samsung CLX.3160 and relies on the package foo2zjs which seems to uninstall my cups since it's version number is lower that 1.5-013.
On debian 6 this isn't a problem and the debian testing repos show a cups 1.5 whereas my repo is mint debian testing and cups is 1.4.8-2.
Is there a reason why the lmde cups is such a low version?
Any good tips for solving this?
Thanks!

[Gerd50]

Please show the output of

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inxi -r

[barongas]

inxi -r gives:

Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dropbox.list
deb http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu maverick main

[Gerd50]

You are tracking the mint latest testing sources. This sources are freezed for weeks now and nobody knows, when updatepack 4
will be out. What you can do ist add debian testing source to your sources.list

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deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

update cups and then uncomment or delete the source.

[faffmeister]

If Gerd50's post doesn't help, you could try this:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... it=foo2zjs