Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running up-to-date Buster, unfortunately there seems to be a bit of a > problem. > > Normally I run the update process several times a week with the command sudo > apr update && sudo apt upgrade. This morning this resulted in the error > > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > brscan4 > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > E: Can't find a source to download version '0.4.8-1' of 'brscan4:amd64' > After unpacking 0 B will be used. > E: Can't find a source to download version '0.4.8-1' of 'brscan4:amd64' > E: Internal error: couldn't generate list of packages to download > E: Perhaps the package lists are out of date, please try 'aptitude update' > (or equivalent); otherwise some packages or versions are not available from > the current repository sources > > I reinstalled the Brother printer drivers, apparently barscan4 was not > included. I contgaced Brother tech support, but was told that they did not > support Linux. > > I tried: > > sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists /var/lib/apt/lists.old > sudo apt-get clean > sudo apt-get update > > This resulted in a long list of get: (ellipses) followed by my user > prompt. Unfortunately, update generated the same errors. > > At this point I don't have the faintest idea as to how to proceed. Pointers > towards a solution to the problem will be much appreciated.
apt-get update fetches package lists apt-get upgrade fetches and install packages In this case, I think you have a problem with update, which leads to the problem with upgrade. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list and entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Something probably is not responding. There are mirrors for most repos, so pick different mirrors, or use http://deb.debian.org/debian/ -dsr-
