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Printer Idle - No suitable destination host found by cups-browsed. Ubuntu 20.04. The accepted answer to "No suitable Destination Host found by cups-browsed" recommends sudo apt-get purge --autoremove cups-browsed . When I do that, I get the following results:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cups-browsed* libfprint-2-tod1* libquazip5-1* ubuntu-mate-core*
  ubuntu-mate-desktop*

I definitely need MATE and the removal of cups-browsed seems to force the removal of MATE. Is there another workaround? May I remove cups-browsed and nothing else? The printer was working on the initial installation of 20.04, but one or more of the security upgrades seem to have caused a software failure. The printer is a Brother DCP-L2540DW series, driverless, cups-filters 1.27.4.

karel
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If you cannot purge cups-browsed because of dependency problems, you can stop it functioning with

systemctl mask cups-browsed

There is another way, but let's see how you go on with that.

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The removal of cups-browsed requires the removal of MATE in 20.04.1 LTS.

The command given by brian_p, sudo systemctl mask cups-browsed is step 1.

However, the software connection to the printer still exists and it will not print.

One then adds a new printer; in my case as the printer is accessed through my local IEEE 802.11 "wifi" network. This is a printer listed under Network during the Add printer dialog using the Printer configuration GUI under MATE control center (something similar from other window environments, as well as a CLI command -- someone else can supply these methods).

During the add printer dialog, there is also an option to print a test page -- if that works, one is done.

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