Re: bothersome Brother package
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 21:58 +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:14:51PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > I couldn't get a .deb from Brother (for printing) to install and now I
> > can't seem to get rid off it whatever I do (see below - it wouldn't
> > in/de-stall since some directories not present so I created them but it
> > doesn't help NB /usr/local has lots of my valuable data too!). I don't
> > need it since I've sorted how to print to the Brother printer without
> > said .deb but with it hanging about it's making present 'apt-get's very
> > messy. All help welcome - couldn't see how to sort this mess out from
> > the man pages.
>
>
> Your question is basically how to remove broken package.
>
> My answe: fix it :-)
Indeed - my first time fixing a broken package and thanks to below it
helped!
>
> > dpkg - warning: while removing hl5150dlpr, unable to remove directory
> > `/usr/loca l': Device or resource busy - directory may be a mount
> > point ?
>
> WTF this package is doing??? God thing DPKG prevent this.
yes, I am extremely disappointed with this - Brother claimed to support
Linux for their printers!
>
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5150dlpr.postrm: line 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such
> > file or d irectory
> > dpkg: error processing hl5150dlpr (--purge):
> > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5150dlpr.postinst: line
> > 3: /usr/local/Brother/inf/setupPrin tcap: No such file or directory
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5150dlpr.postinst: line 4: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such
> > file or directory
>
> This is it. Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/hl5150dlpr.postinst !
> Read its code and do things which make sense to you by hand.
> Insert "exit 0" at the top and run "sudo apt-get remove --purge
> hl5150dlpr".
I basically commented out all lines (they all pointed to either
something in /usr/local or /etc/init.d/lpd) and then it worked
ta, Michael
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