E: The package webmin needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
E: The package mfc8500lpr needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
This error might be with any package in the above examples webmin and mfc8500lpr packages this error mostly occour when you try to install a debian package in to ubuntu system
Error
E: The package package name needs to be reinstalled, but I can’t find an archive for it.
Package name in the above error could be any package
Solution
Run the following command
For webmin Pakage
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq webmin
You can replace webmin to any of your package name which is giving the error
Hi guys, I’m in linux Lucid Lynx and i was trying to install java jre 6 in the synaptic center, but my laptop ran out of battery and I get the problem that you have mentioned up there, but when I’m trying to remove by ‘sudo dpgk --force-remove-reinsreq ‘ I get this
dpkg: error processing openjdk-6-jre (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
So, i’m unavailable to do what you have already said… Do you have any ideas? I’m not that expert to go and erase the files directly from de / directory
Regards,
Felipe.
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Hey thanks!
I had this problem with package skype just yet, and your solution still works on Kubuntu maverick!
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You are the man!!! Thanks so much for this! I could hug you!!
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I am getting this error but trying to remove the package I get
dpkg: error processing icaclient (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
icaclient
But I can’t reinstall either. I am getting this on several package I’m trying to reinstall or configure and cannot even locate on my Linux machine. Any ideas??
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I get the following error:
dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
superuser???
Thanks
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Thanks heaps man was having trouble with skype.
^ dude above just put “sudo ” infront worked for me
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Hi.
I know this is an old post, but I hope someone sees it.
Unfortunately, this did not work for me.
I get the following message:
$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq mfc5490cnlpr
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of mfc5490cnlpr:
mfc5490cncupswrapper depends on mfc5490cnlpr.
dpkg: error processing mfc5490cnlpr (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc5490cnlpr
I then removed mfcncupswrapper and tried again.
The result was:
$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq mfc5490cncupswrapper
(Reading database …
dpkg: warning: files list file for package `mfc5490cncupswrapper’ missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.
(Reading database … 221988 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc5490cncupswrapper …
njm@WOLF359:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq mfc5490cnlpr
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database … 221988 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc5490cnlpr …
start: Unknown job: lprng
dpkg: error processing mfc5490cnlpr (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc5490cnlpr
If anyone out there has any ideas about how to solve this, without a full reinstall of my system, it would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Neil.
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In my case it was blindly following Brother’s Web page instructions for an MFC-7460DN. I believe that Ubuntu’s System - Administration - Printing is all I needed to do.
Anyway, in re Neil: mine was
# dpkg --remove --force-all mfc7460dnlpr
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database … 180087 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc7460dnlpr …
start: Unknown job: lpd
dpkg: error processing mfc7460dnlpr (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mfc7460dnlpr
Worse, the Synaptic package manager threw an error on startup and aborted!
What I did was
locate postrm
which pointed to, inter alia, a lot of files named /var/lib/dpkg/info/[PACKAGE].postrm
I cd’ed there and found /var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc7460dnlpr.postrm.
#!/bin/sh
if [ -e /etc/init.d/lprng ]; then
/etc/init.d/lprng restart
elif [ -e /etc/init.d/lpd ]; then
/etc/init.d/lpd restart
fi
I appended ” || true” to make it ignore command exit statuses:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -e /etc/init.d/lprng ]; then
/etc/init.d/lprng restart || true
elif [ -e /etc/init.d/lpd ]; then
/etc/init.d/lpd restart || true
fi
Then I got
# dpkg --remove --force-all mfc7460dnlpr
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
(Reading database … 180087 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mfc7460dnlpr …
start: Unknown job: lpd
which removed the package. I ran
# dpkg --purge --force-all mfc7460dnlpr
to get rid of everything.
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com
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Hi Tim.
Thanks for the thorough information. Much appreciated.
In the end, I ended up doing a fresh OS install. I was not too bothered about that as I had only just done it and wasn’t going to lose much time.
I will keep this bookmarked, in case I need to call upon it again. I am just perplexed as to why the printer worked fine in 10.04 but not 10.10 or later.
Here’s hoping they sort it soon.
Many thanks again and best regards,
Neil.
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Thanks a lot!!!
It works for me.
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You are a life saver
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Why is the right solution, so hard to find!
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. Worked on Ubuntu 11.10 for my MFC-7360n.
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