package mfc6800lpr stopping upgrade

I was trying to get a printer driver installed for my printer. The deb package mfc6800lpr was installed. this package now seems to be stopping me from doing any dist upgrade. If I try to remove it, I get the error: Removing mfc6800lpr ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/mfc6800lpr.postrm: line 3: /etc/init.d/lpd: No such file or directory and apt-get errors out. I get the same thing through synaptic. How do I remove this program?

The mfc6800lpr.postrm file simply has the line /etc/init.d/lpd restart in it. I do not have /etc/init.d/lpd on my system. can I remove the mfc6800lpr.postrm file and get this to work?

edit: Never mind, I backed up the mfc6800lpr.postrm file with another name, removed the first one and ran the upgrade and it went through without a hitch.

I was having the same problem. I couldn't touch that file or anything in the /var directory and below, with my default login name. I found that I had to enable the system administrator to login. Once I did that, I logged-in as root, browsed to find that file, edited it to comment out the last line, then saved it. I then logged out as root, logged-in as my default user, went to System / Administration / Synaptic... and then selected to remove the mfc6800lpr. It worked - no error message. When I went back to the folder where the mfc6800lpr.postrm file was, it was still there, but now it is no longer causing problems. I can upgrade/install/remove packages with no problem.