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package is in a inconsistent state cant remove or install

Asked by Leon

package is in a inconsistent state and synaptic package manager wont let me remove or install. It also says The package was mfc4800lpr for brother printer.
I've only been using Ubuntu and Linux for 2 days so if someone could please help.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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Leon (athapaskan) said : 		#2

Thanks to marcobra

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mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner) said : 		#3

I have this same problem. Sadly, I can't get rid of the cursed mfc4800lpr package, and as such cannot do anything with apt-get, synaptic, aptitude, etc.

This is the most frustrating package I have ever dealt with. It seems it wants lpd to be installed, but strangely, lpd is not in the repos. I can't fix this problem without installing lpd, so I'm stuck.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

@ mlissner

Please don't append a new question on a already answered or marked as solved question.
Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or answered questions are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you