Canon ip4850 printer, can't remove old i386 dependancies

[Groucho_Aus]

I'm trying to get a Canon ip4850 printer installed on a fairly new upgrade to 64-bit Narhwal. I want to install the cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_amd64.deb and cnijfilter-ip4800series_3.40-1_amd64.deb packages, (;atest Canon drivers) but get the following error:

dpkg: error processing /home/name/cnijfilter-ip4800series-3.40-1-deb/packages/cnijfilter-common_3.40-1_amd64.deb (--install):
cnijfilter-common: 3.40-1 (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with cnijfilter-common:i386 3.20-1 (Multi-Arch: no) which is currently installed

How do I remove the old i386 3.20-1 arch? I've tried sudo apt-get remove, and this is the result.

name@name:~$ sudo apt-get remove cnijfilter-common
[sudo] password for name:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Virtual packages like 'cnijfilter-common' can't be removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 35 not upgraded.

Tried:

name@name:~$ sudo dpkg --purge cnijfilter-common
dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching cnijfilter-common
name@name:~$ sudo dpkg --purge cnijfilter-common

Thanks in advance.

[pspierce]

Same issue. Frustrating.

[guillaumev]

Hi,

Here is the solution (assuming you had an ip3600series installed before, but for other printers you can follow the same procedure):


sudo dpkg -r cnijfilter-ip3600series:i386
sudo dpkg -r cnijfilter-common:i386

[Groucho_Aus]

Worked perfectly, thanks guillaumev (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=948448)

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