On Oct 03, 2024, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 10:53:30 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > On Oct 03, 2024, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > When I ran linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.4-1 it downloaded: > > > > > > > [...] $ sudo install brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb > > > > [...] > > > > Where on earth did you get that command from? > > > > Last time I installed any of Brother's packages (last year, given file > > timestamps ;) ), the download page came with a full set of instructions. > > As I recall, they should boil down to essentially something like this: > > > > 1. (sudo) dpkg -i brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb > > 2. (sudo) apt-get update && apt-get -f install > > That's the old way, yeah. It should still work. > > The newer way is: > > (sudo) apt-get update > (sudo) apt-get install ./brscan4-0.4.11-1.amd64.deb
Certainly a cleaner way, if it has missing dependencies. I'm gonna have to remember that one when I get a new HDD for the laptop ... (I won't :) ) -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860
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