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  1. Bug #115592
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 115592

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JimE (james-a-ely) wrote : Re: Update Manager won't allow updating

Haven't heard from anybody in a while. Here is what I did to correct this problem.

I thought that there must be a file where all of the packages are tracked. I found such a file at /var/lib/dpkg/status. This file keeps track of all of the packages installed and their respective statuses. I located the magicolor2430dl package with its status as "needs to be re-installed." Since there is very little chance that there will be an update received through the regular update procedures, I deleted the entry and all information about the package from the file. This fixed the problem and now the update manager is working again. The error is gone.

This may not be exactly the way this should have been handled, but since all other regular possibilities seemed to have been exhausted, and my goal was to be able to use the update manager, this seemed to be the best route to take.

All is working as it should be now, including the laser printer, and I can again add new packages to my system.

Thank you for the help and advice.

Jim