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.
Cheers
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, 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?
Comments will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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