Re: bothersome Brother package
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 :-)
> 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.
> /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".
Cheers,
Osamu
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