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  1. Bug #115592
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 115592

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JimE (james-a-ely) wrote : Re: [Bug 115592] Re: Update Manager won't allow updating

<email address hidden> wrote:
> You will want to use 'apt-get remove --purge magicolor2430dl' if that is
> the name of the package you are having problems with. Thanks again.
>
>
 After I had replied before, I had thought about that and tried. Here is
the result....

jim@jim-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge magicolor2430dl*
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package magicolor2430dl needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find
an archive for it.

That doesn't seem to do it either.
Jim