Re: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download
On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 11:01:42 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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> On 09/27/2020 09:21 AM, Brian wrote:
> > On Sun 27 Sep 2020 at 07:32:20 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
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> > > /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.
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> I followed your suggestion, extracted the deb and copied the files to
> /opt/brother/scanner. However, sudo apt purge brscan4 I got:
We hope you meant /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4.
You can also use 'dpkg -P brscan4' instead of the apt command. Not that
should make any difference to the outcome.
--
Brian.
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