Existing users, 
This makes the QuickTime 7.5 screw up look like a candy store.
This should not even be on a public site like this. It should be on the CUPS site ONLY with a big red WARNING, for programmers and mega Geeks ONLY, all others stay away.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger
Run Willow Run.
Run Forest Run
All kidding aside. You will need to do a fresh install of your system, or have a fresh bootable clone on your slave drive using SuperDuper in smart mode, back up all files, just in case an Apple update or anything else kills your Mac. ALWAYS have a fresh backup, or your life on your Mac can turn ugly fast. It took 3 major screw ups over the years for me to wise up. One was an early version of Carbon Copy Cloner. I also have an external back up hard drive. Not going to get me again.
CUPS
Souce code for the Common UNIX printing system.
Version: 1.4rc1
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Contributed by: ban90915 Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 12:37 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: NO
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Do Not Enter - A. Nony Mouse
The problem here is that you are compiling CUPS for, I'll wager, an Intel based platform which Office 2004 was not written for. In other words you aren't compiling correctly for Universal distribution. You installed the update to serve Intel apps but the older applications are coming up empty and crashing- Office 2004 specifically looks to the print subsystem upon launch and crashes when CUPS is done wrong. The easy fix is to recompile CUPS as a Universal binary and install that- you will again have functionality. People who rush to reinstall their entire system should never have touch CUPS to begin with- it is rarely necessary to reinstall.If you don't want to compile it yourself you can always grab a copy from my blog site. I post my link with each release since Apple left us out in the cold.
Sunday, October 12 2008 @ 09:57 PM PDT
Do Not Enter - Ban_This
Like "ban_this" says. It's for Geeks only. I have no idea what recompile CUPS means and have been using Macs since they came out. Which both users are me, because I was banned.I'm using 10.4.11 on a PPC, G3/G4 B&W. It's not wise to guess, because you will always be wrong, not matter how smart you think you are or how long you look in a mirror for affirmation.
Sunday, October 26 2008 @ 08:27 PM PDT
Do Not Enter - DezignerGimp
I found that building cups 1.3.8 from source (not as hard as it sounds if dev tools are installed) worked fine on Mac OS 10.5.4 for the most part. Microsoft Office 2004 and Intuit Quicken 2006, though, wouldn't even open with cups 1.3.8 installed. Even though Apple says Leopard is 100% Linux compatible, Apple has tinkered with several Leopard cups libs and lppasswd. I can't say I'd recommend this upgrade for Leopard.I did upgrade a 10.4 (Tiger) Mac system with cups 1.3.8, and Microsoft Office hasn't had a problem. That install, also from source, went easy and has worked fine.
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Wednesday, August 06 2008 @ 11:16 AM PDT