On 1/6/08, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:08:51PM -0600, Mike Burrows wrote:
> > Gooned up a printer driver install and now stuck coz I can't go back and
> > start over:
>
> The key message is:
>
> > marvin:/home/testermike# aptitude
> > purge /home/testermike/brother/mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9.i386.deb
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Reading extended state information
> > Initializing package states... Done
> > Reading task descriptions... Done
> > Building tag database... Done
> > You can only specify a package archive with an 'install' command.
>
> ^^ this one ^^
>
> You need to specify the package name, not the path to the .deb file.
>
> > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > Setting up mfc240ccupswrapper (1.0.0-9) ...
The joys of automated packaging! Can you do it the Slackware way?
Uninstalling the offending packages one by one with dpkg?
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Ottavio Caruso
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