The brscan4 i8s on the Brother Printer site. Use the script for linux to install it . My Brother functions fine as printer and scanner when installed with the Brother script from their site.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 4:31 PM David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 30 Oct 2024 at 15:21:09 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > On 10/04/2024 02:41 AM, to...@tuxteam.de 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. > >
