Re: Synaptic Problem
On Wed 30 Oct 2024 at 15:21:09 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On 10/04/2024 02:41 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 04:32:31PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > > 1. (sudo) dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
> > > > > 2. (sudo) apt-get update && apt-get -f install
> > > > Of course, such manual install of `.deb` files means that you won't
> > > > automatically get future updates, e.g. to fix security bugs.
> > > Given our friends at Brother don't have any repositories at all, this is
> > > somewhat a moot point.
> > >
> > > > To add insult to injury, such `.deb` files often contain proprietary code,
> > > > of course.
> > > Nobody said Brother's printer/scanner driver was open source in the
> > > first place.
> > Nevertheless, the reminders are spot-on, for potential buyers to
> > bear in mind. Informed consumers and that.
> >
> This problem, rather the quest for the solution, has been dormant for
> a while because I was resigned to reinstalling the OS. However, this
> morning thanks to a reference:
> https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSDriverlessPrinting I managed to get the
> driver less solution.
>
> Although that works, and I removed the Brother drivers with
> localhost:631,
That should merely deconfigure the Brother driver(s) from being
used. It can't change the status of installed package(s).
> I still get:
>
> comp@Abanormal:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> [sudo] password for comp:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
> archive for it.
> comp@Abanormal:~$
>
> after running sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get update before
> running the above.
>
> Is reinstalling the OS the only solution to the problem?
If you still have the package(s), you can install them with:
apt install path-to-file/filename.deb
where the path starts with . or / (relative or absolute).
Alternatively, you could try removing the package(s) with:
sudo apt-get purge brscan4 …
You might need the -f switch to help things along.
Cheers,
David.
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