I upgraded my libcups package to 1.6 in hopes to fix something but I just buggered things up more. So I want to reinstall it to the version on the repository (1.5.3 I think).

I've tried to do a reinstall using

~#: apt-get install --reinstall libcups2

but that tells me it cannot be downloaded so refuses to upgrade.

I can't just do:

~#: apt-get remove libcups2
~#: apt-get install libcups2

as that wants to remove 299 packages along with it. Totaling 668MB so I am hesitant as that will probably take 6 hours to download on my connection.