On Wed 30 Oct 2024 at 15:21:09 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 10/04/2024 02:41 AM, [email protected] 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.
