unresolved package mfc9700lpr in ubuntu 7.04

[Garschy11]

Update Manager will not initialize due to the uninstalled package,

'E:The package mfc9700lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 21 00:19:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/edgar
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux ragde-utnubu 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:47:12 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[era (era)]

The package brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 appears to replace the older package, but didn't this happen already several releases ago? Anyway, does it help if you install this package (assuming you have this Brother printer in the first place)?

[Garschy11 (edgarfajardo)]

Hi, Thank you and the rest of the guys who develop and maintain this wonderful flavour of Linux. I never thought the response will be this quick for an open source OS organization. Anyway, I tried to clean the lpr install but to no avail. Terminal won't clean, remove, reinstall package for its missing archive files. Same as with Synaptic and Update Manager. I keep getting the message/ bug so I cannot remove or do anything.
I'll try a fresh install of 8.04 or 8.10 for the mean time to test compatibility with my laptop. Thanks again.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of era
Sent: January-23-09 10:56 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 319484] Re: unresolved package mfc9700lpr in ubuntu 7.04

The package brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 appears to replace the older
package, but didn't this happen already several releases ago? Anyway,
does it help if you install this package (assuming you have this Brother
printer in the first place)?

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unresolved package mfc9700lpr in ubuntu 7.04
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Update Manager will not initialize due to the uninstalled package,

'E:The package mfc9700lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 21 00:19:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: yelp 2.20.0-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: yelp
ProcCwd: /home/edgar
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux ragde-utnubu 2.6.22-15-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 21 23:47:12 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[era (era)]

In order to help diagnose the precise nature of the problem, do you think you could follow up with the command line you are using and the lines surrounding the actual error message?

Do you have any idea why this package was originally installed, and/or why it needs to be reinstalled?

The command "aptitude why mfc9700lpr" in the terminal might help indicate which dependencies cause this package to be marked to be installed.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.