Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download

["Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net>]

On 09/27/2020 09:21 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4: not found
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst: 19:
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/brscan4.postinst:
> > /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/udev_config.sh: not found
> You have checked whether tose files exist or not?
>
>    ls -l /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/setupSaneScan4
>    ls -l /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/udev_config.sh
>
> If not, you can cheat by extracting them from the the deb package,
> putting them where they are looked for and then running
>
>    apt purge brscan4
Thank you for your response.

Both files were missing.


I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to 
/opt/brother/scanner.  However, sudo apt purge brscan4 I got:

comp@AbNormal:~/Downloads/Brother/tmp$ sudo  apt purge brscan4
[sudo] password for comp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an 
archive for it.

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