On Fri, Sep 25 2020 at 07:48:28 AM, "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> 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 E: Perhaps the package lists are out of date, please try 'aptitude 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.
brscan4 is the package with the scanner driver. That is provided as a separate download. In my setup, it did not have a debian repository; it was provided as a bare .deb download. > > 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. > Try dpkg --configure -a to finish configuration for partially installed packages. If your device is supported by https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan, you can just switch to that and ditch the Brother software. -- regards, kushal
