Chuo FPS
October 30th, 2011, 04:11 AM
Hi,
Like my first thread, my problem comes from being in Japan. I tried to install a Brother printer on my Asus K53E laptop on which I use Ubuntu 11-10. The printer is an MFC-8820JN, which is specific to Japan and not sold anywhere else, hence there is no Brother package available for installation with Ubuntu. Result is I tried to install it using the closest printer package possible, e.g. MFC 8820, MFC 8420 or MFC 8820D etc., but with no luck. In any case, I can live without the printer, but ever since I have been unable to install anything else on my computer!
Each time I try to install something (e.g., VLC) a pop up window appears saying "Impossible to install VLC media player, items must be removed" and it indicates "Brother lpr printer definitions mfc8420lpr" as the package to be removed.
I'm a novice and have searched the forums and come across this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1610154), but couldn't find a solution using the Synaptics Package manager, and this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1854573), but when I run a Terminal as suggested I get this screen (after eventually following the Terminal's advice to install dselect):
sudo apt-get install dselect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
mfc8420lpr
The following NEW packages will be installed
dselect
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/179 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,155 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 144800 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc8420lpr ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc8420lpr.postrm: 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: not found
dpkg: error processing mfc8420lpr (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc8420lpr
In a word, I can't install anything until I delete "mfc8420lpr", but I don't seem to be able to! Help, please!
Thanks.
Like my first thread, my problem comes from being in Japan. I tried to install a Brother printer on my Asus K53E laptop on which I use Ubuntu 11-10. The printer is an MFC-8820JN, which is specific to Japan and not sold anywhere else, hence there is no Brother package available for installation with Ubuntu. Result is I tried to install it using the closest printer package possible, e.g. MFC 8820, MFC 8420 or MFC 8820D etc., but with no luck. In any case, I can live without the printer, but ever since I have been unable to install anything else on my computer!
Each time I try to install something (e.g., VLC) a pop up window appears saying "Impossible to install VLC media player, items must be removed" and it indicates "Brother lpr printer definitions mfc8420lpr" as the package to be removed.
I'm a novice and have searched the forums and come across this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1610154), but couldn't find a solution using the Synaptics Package manager, and this post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1854573), but when I run a Terminal as suggested I get this screen (after eventually following the Terminal's advice to install dselect):
sudo apt-get install dselect
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
mfc8420lpr
The following NEW packages will be installed
dselect
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/179 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,155 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 144800 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc8420lpr ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc8420lpr.postrm: 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: not found
dpkg: error processing mfc8420lpr (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc8420lpr
In a word, I can't install anything until I delete "mfc8420lpr", but I don't seem to be able to! Help, please!
Thanks.