On 12/10/23 10:47, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just reinstalled Bookworm.
Unfortunately, when I tru tto use synaptic I get the following error:
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.
Unfortunately, Google has not been of any help.
A solution to the problem would be appreciated.
Tanks in advance.
A solution may already exist on your machine if it knows about brscan.
Brother has a deb containing their smartinstaller as a bash script,
named in my case "linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1" or your can get the
latest version from brothers sites, visit with firefox.
Unpack it, run it from a cli, it asks for the model number string of the
printer or scanner, goes to brother'sown linux repo and downloads the
latest version available for that device and installs and configures it
to Just Work with cups IF you have removed cups-browsed thereby
disallowing cups from setting up the default printer driver which cannot
drive the printer in anything but waste paper mode. Brothers own drivers
support every feature the printer has, accessible from the web interface
cups serves at localhost:631. Despite the poor publicity I've seen about
factory drivers, brothers drivers for linux work 100% here. Linux
support is excellent for their products.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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