Cannot install .tbz

you need to use:

tar zxvf cups-image-1.3.10_2.tbz

andy@fileserver:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups | grep image
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-17ubuntu3.2

There is cupsimage 1.3.9-17 on the repo. Does that not work for you?

You didn't give tar any options. To extract you need something like
"tar -xvjf filename.tbz"

Where did you get this file? It is possibly source code and not
directly installable anyway. If it is a binary then it may not work
correctly with Ubuntu.

You could also extract it using the graphical archive manager, by
double clicking the file in the gui.

It might be better to use a gui rather than a cli. I find point&click much easier to cope with than typing dense stuff on the command-line. Try going up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic

it asks for your normal user password, not your SuperUser/Root one. In the "File" menu try either search tool to find "cups-image-1.3.10_2" or even try a more general search for "cups", also click the "Mark all updates" (while you're here anyway) and then click on the "Apply" button.

I hope this helps!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Thanks Steve. I had tried what you suggest but it didn't work.

Steven Susbauer a écrit :
> Your question #75891 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/75891
>
> Steven Susbauer proposed the following answer:
> You didn't give tar any options. To extract you need something like
> "tar -xvjf filename.tbz"
>
> Where did you get this file? It is possibly source code and not
> directly installable anyway. If it is a binary then it may not work
> correctly with Ubuntu.
>
> You could also extract it using the graphical archive manager, by
> double clicking the file in the gui.
>
>

Many thanks Tom for your help, but I regret to say I have had to
unistall Ubuntu and reinstall Windows. I really couldn't cope with this
version's problems:

    * My printer ceased to function. It worked fine with 8.10 and
      previous versions
    * The sound in Skype ceased to function and I really need this to
      communicate. I had to do so through my laptop which I had
      previously changed to Windows
    * The wifi never worked correctly

To this I should add problems not related directly to Ubuntu like open
office having problems with complicated formats in Word and in Power
Point. I could more or less live with this (although some clients
weren't very happy!) but the three points I mentioned at the beginning
became a bit too much. I simply don't have the time to spend hours
hunting around for solutions. Having said this, I thoroughly dislike
Windows, so I wish Ubuntu well in sorting out the bugs in this version.

Regards,

Melvyn

Tom a écrit :
> Your question #75891 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/75891
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> It might be better to use a gui rather than a cli. I find point&click
> much easier to cope with than typing dense stuff on the command-line.
> Try going up to the top taskbar and click on
>
> System - Administration - Synaptic
>
> it asks for your normal user password, not your SuperUser/Root one. In
> the "File" menu try either search tool to find "cups-image-1.3.10_2" or
> even try a more general search for "cups", also click the "Mark all
> updates" (while you're here anyway) and then click on the "Apply"
> button.
>
> I hope this helps!
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>

Ahh, there's a few critical factors i wasn't aware of there.

For 'corporate' or business use most people seem to be sticking with 8.04 because of it's "Long Term Support" (until 2011). The next "Long Term Support" release isn't due until 2010, April (release 10.04). Bug fixes and such are all aimed first at the last LTS (8.04), then at the latest normal release (9.04) and then at the rest.

Also many corporate or business users (and not a few others) buy-in professional support services from cannonical. One year's worth of support being around the same ball-park figure as buying a legit version of Windows.
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid

Many people have a dual-boot machine and some run a virtual machine inside linux with a Windows installed there some have both using the same product-key licence number. A dual-boot is a great way to combine the strengths of both OS's and makes the machine very much more robust than either OS alone - problems with one then boot into the other. Linux can read data on the Windows side so keeping important stuff on the Windows side seems smart ;)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Virus scans and such are faster and safer from the linux side. Once you get OpenOffice defaulting to saving stuff in Microsquish formats rather than it's installed defaults (i think "Tools" - "Options" - "Load&Save") then so much stuff is so much easier and faster that the time taken to reboot is much less of an issue than intuitively makes sense. As messing around with VirtualBox is still a bit beyond me i would definitely recommend setting up a normal dual boot as the guide describes and installing 8.04, although support for 8.10 continues until march/April 2010 so 8.10 might be good instead.

Sorry i didn't realise you weren't just a normal home-user
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)