Unable to run apt-get command (Unit cups.service is masked)

Question

Today when I try to update some packages in "Update Manager" I get the error about cups-browsed, then I open terminal and type this command sudo apt-get install -f, output as below:

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up cups-browsed (1.8.3-2ubuntu3.1) ... Failed to start cups-browsed.service: Unit cups.service is masked. invoke-rc.d: initscript cups-browsed, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package cups-browsed (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cups-browsed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What happened with my OS (Linux Mint 18) ?

Answer 1

Perhaps you can try the command

sudo systemctl unmask cups.socket

Hope that would help.