Re: Problem with Synaptic
On Friday 12 November 2021 07:36:01 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > This is the immediate problem that I need to fix:
> >
> > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> > 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.
> >
> > sudo apt update ran without any problems.
>
> Try downloading it again (since it's not part of the archives, it must
> be downloaded manually) and running 'apt install ./brscan4-......deb'
> (substituting the actual file name, naturally). The './' is necessary
> to tell apt it's a file name.
No, to be precise, it tells the file system its a file in the currently
cd'd to directory. Which may not be in the env's $PATH.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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