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Remove a lpr printer file, causing a error "exit status 127.

Asked by Tom D Greenawald

Novice with Ubuntu, using Ubuntu Netbook 10.04 on a Dell mini 386 Atom 2MB Ram. When I set up my printers on a small network , I downloaded a LPR driver, by mistake instead of a Cups driver package and loaded it. After discovering my mistake I thought I had removed it. I did use the "Package Manager Tool" in the system folder. Now months later, when I try to update my system , I can only do a "partial update" of system because I get the following message. E: hl5170dnlpr: Sub process post-removal script returned Error status 127.

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

Please try from terminal:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq hl5170dnlpr

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Tom D Greenawald (tgreenawald) said : 		#2

Procedure did not

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Tom D Greenawald (tgreenawald) said : 		#3

Procedure did not work and it prompted this terimal message:
Remove hl5170dnlpr
/var/lib/dpkg/hl5170dnlpr.postrm:3:/etc/init/.d/lpd not found
dpkg: error processing hl5170dnlpr(--remove):subprocess installed post -removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing : hl5170dnlpr
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg/returned error code(1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover

Is a reinstall of the pkg is needed?

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Tom D Greenawald (tgreenawald) said : 		#4

Procedure did not work and it prompted this terimal message:
Remove hl5170dnlpr
/var/lib/dpkg/hl5170dnlpr.postrm:3:/etc/init/.d/lpd not found
dpkg: error processing hl5170dnlpr(--remove):subprocess installed post -removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing : hl5170dnlpr
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg/returned error code(1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover

Is a reinstall of the pkg is needed?

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Tom D Greenawald (tgreenawald) said : 		#5

Procedure did not work and it prompted this terimal message:
Remove hl5170dnlpr
/var/lib/dpkg/hl5170dnlpr.postrm:3:/etc/init/.d/lpd not found
dpkg: error processing hl5170dnlpr(--remove):subprocess installed post -removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing : hl5170dnlpr
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg/returned error code(1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover

Is a reinstall of the pkg is needed?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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