brscan2

[Liam Proven]

>
> In an effort to get the scanner working, I tried adding missing data to
> the package, brscan. Unfortunately I broke it.

How do you "add missing data" to a package?

And why on Earth did you think you could do this, or should do this,
or that it would be a good idea?

> Unfortunately brscan2, mfc240ccupswrapper, and mfc240clpr don't have all
> the data they are supposed to have. In particular 'Section,' 'Priority,'
> and 'Installed-Size.'

What  do you mean by this?

All Ubuntu packages have all the data they need. You cannot add to it,
change it, alter it, edit it or anything else and if you think you can
then you do not understand how Linux software packaging works, and you
need to learn that.


> dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:

:-o

You used force?! Why?!

> Does anyone know what this all means, and better yet how to fix it.

No, because I have no idea what you did.

> BTW. /usr/local/Brother was not found due to an error I made placing the
> install directory tree in the directory data. i.e. data/usr/local/Brother …

:-o

You are flailing around without knowing what you are doing, and you
have corrupted your system software.

You should never try to alter this stuff without understanding, any
more than you could try to fix a jet engine while flying a plane.

> P.S. I've manually removed /data and all it contained.

Oh my. This just gets worse and worse.

> Though the files
> in /var/lib/dpkg/info … are still there. Could they be causing the problem?

Backup your data. Reformat your computer. Never ever try to over-ride
the packaging system again. This is not only completely unnecessary,
it cannot possibly ever work, and you have done the equivalent of
taking a chainsaw to a running engine, cutting random chunks out
without understanding, hammering some large nails in, and now are
confused why it doesn't work. I am amazed it hasn't exploded.

Format, reinstall, do not play with it again.

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