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purging an unwanted file from system (dcp1000pr)

Asked by david_stern@telus.net

I accessed Brother website to get driver for a MFC-620CN printer - unsuccessfully. After pulling down and opening a number of files I was left with a file "dcp1000pr" which the "Computer Janitor" can't get rid of. It seems to be interfering with my ability to process upgrade my system. Any ideas what to do? I'm running Version 10.04 and have had no problems until I tried to attach this ??!! printer.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo apt-get clean; dpkg -l | grep dcp

Thanks

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david_stern@telus.net (david-stern) said : 		#2

actionparsnip - this was the result! David Stern
rH dcp1000lpr 1.1.2-1
Brother lpr Printer Definitions

On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 13:59 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> sudo apt-get clean; dpkg -l | grep dcp

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

sudo dpkg -P dcp1000lpr; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

Should do it.

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david_stern@telus.net (david-stern) said : 		#4

I entered the line of code below and it triggered a procedure at the end
of which it states:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dcp1000lpr*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Computer Janitor still sees the file and is unable to remove it! Any
more ideas? and thank you for your help! David Stern
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 16:22 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #132977 on cups in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/132977
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> sudo dpkg -P dcp1000lpr; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
>
> Should do it.
>

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

I suggest you redownload the deb and force install it with:

sudo dpkg --force-all -i filename.deb

and then use software-centreor apt-get etc to remove it the normal way.

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