Re: Synaptic Problem

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

On 10/03/2024 09:17 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:

On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I am running Bookworm and have just updated the Brother MFC-L2710DW Laser
Printer Drivers.
 [...]

E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

brscan4 (as with all of Brother's software) is only available as a
Brother-supplied *deb package.  You're not going to find it in public
repos.

Head on over to https://support.brother.com and grab it.

Thanks for your reply.

When I ran linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1 it downloaded:

comp@Abanormal:~/Downloads/BrotherPrinter$ l
total 548
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111246 Mar 20� 2023 brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root� 73934 Sep� 5� 2023comp@Abanormal:~/Downloads/BrotherPrinter$ sudo install brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
[sudo] password for comp:
install: missing destination file operand after 'brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb'
Try 'install --help' for more information.
comp@Abanormal:~/Downloads/BrotherPrinter$ -0.3.2-0.amd64.deb
-rwxr-xr-- 1 comp comp 144449 Sep 29 14:55 linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root� 80576 Sep 29 15:00 mfcl2710dwpdrv-4.0.0-1a.i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122978 Mar 20� 2023 mfcl2710dwpdrv-4.0.0-1.i386.deb
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root���� 96 Sep 29 15:08 uninstaller_brscan4
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root���� 43 Sep 29 15:08 uninstaller_brscan-skey
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root�� 1177 Sep 29 15:08 uninstaller_MFCL2710DW

further:

comp@Abanormal:~/Downloads/BrotherPrinter$ sudo install brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
[sudo] password for comp:
install: missing destination file operand after 'brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb'
Try 'install --help' for more information.
comp@Abanormal:~/Downloads/BrotherPrinter$�

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Unfortunately, although brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb was installed in /opt/brother/... , brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb was not. The installer script didn't generate any errors.

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