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When I bring up printers and then click add printer the program just closes, when running sudo system-config-printer in the command terminal I get this error message.

Error in `/usr/bin/python': double free or corruption (out): 0x00000000013437f0

Don't know what it means or how to fix it, can someone please explain?

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When you install the 'Install VMware Tools', this inserts two new links in /usr/lib/cups/backend/ which renders all printing useless -- no matter what you try!

The solution, move to the directory in question:

cd /usr/lib/cups/backend/

List the files there. The -lFat is just to see everything 'nicely' :-)

ls -lFat

If you see something like this, they are the problem:

tpvmgp -> /usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin/vmware-tpvmlp
tpvmlp -> /usr/lib/vmware-tools/bin/vmware-tpvmlp

The solution, just remove them:

sudo rm tpvmgp
sudo rm tpvmlp

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-818720.html

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