<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">"Dominic Reich" <</span><a href="mailto:dominic@mm.st" style="font-family: Courier;" class="">dominic@mm.st</a><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">> wrote:</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">You should be able to print without any additional software (except the </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">driver that macOS retrieves from its Servers). But you won't need any </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">package from MacPorts for printing.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">Besides that, postgresql83-server is a database. You won't need a </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">database to print stuff.</span></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">This is going to be long, boring and somewhat irrelevant. If you’re busy, move on to the next thread.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Bottom line is that when you have an old, ignorant and naive person like me trying to use something like MacPorts, this stuff is going to happen.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Let’s examine the timeline.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">On Tuesday morning the first thing I did was print a mailing label I needed to return a failed disk drive to Western Digital for warranty replacement. That print job executed without issue.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">The next thing I did was to update MacPorts. That’s when I got the error message on <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">postgresql83. After exchanging a few messages with other members of this list I decided to delete </span><font color="#000000" class="">postgresql83. That was sometime after lunch. After that I didn’t do anything on the iMac. I watched some TV, read a novel, worked in the garden, had a beer for happy hour and ate dinner. (I’m retired.)</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The next morning the first thing I did was try to print something. I’m both surprised and shocked that the print system has simply disappeared. In my mind I associate the last thing I did on Tuesday <span style="font-style: normal;" class="">(delete </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;" class="">postgresql83)</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class=""> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;" class="">with the first thing I tried to do on Wednesday morning (print something). So I assume (wrongly, I guess) that deleting postgresql83 had something to do with the disappearance of the printing system. What else could it have been? </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">I’m the only one who uses this computer and I didn’t do anything between deleting postgresql83 on Tuesday afternoon and trying to print something on Wednesday morning.</span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Anyway, I apologize for the error. As always, I appreciate the help and advice I receive here.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Mike Newman</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Korat, Thailand</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>