CM4 8GB/32GB eMMC, official Bullseye image: error installing upgrade to devterm-thermal-printer

DevTerm Firmware and Apps
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hi, getting this when trying to upgrade after doing an apt upgrade and finding it broken afterwards:

❯ sudo apt reinstall devterm-thermal-printer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  devterm-thermal-printer
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
58 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/41.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 168 kB disk space will be freed.
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 128341 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../devterm-thermal-printer_0.38_arm64.deb ...
Failed to stop devterm-printer.service: Unit devterm-printer.service not loaded.
Failed to stop devterm-socat.service: Unit devterm-socat.service not loaded.
Failed to disable unit: Unit file devterm-printer.service does not exist.
Failed to disable unit: Unit file devterm-socat.service does not exist.
dpkg: warning: old devterm-thermal-printer package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
Failed to stop devterm-printer.service: Unit devterm-printer.service not loaded.
Failed to stop devterm-socat.service: Unit devterm-socat.service not loaded.
Failed to disable unit: Unit file devterm-printer.service does not exist.
Failed to disable unit: Unit file devterm-socat.service does not exist.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/devterm-thermal-printer_0.38_arm64.deb (--unpack):
 new devterm-thermal-printer package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Failed to enable unit: Unit file devterm-socat.service does not exist.
Failed to start devterm-socat.service: Unit devterm-socat.service not found.
Failed to enable unit: Unit file devterm-printer.service does not exist.
Failed to start devterm-printer.service: Unit devterm-printer.service not found.
chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/devterm_socat.sh': No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed devterm-thermal-printer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/devterm-thermal-printer_0.38_arm64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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anyone know if there is a known fix for this?

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Looks like your are missing that file in that location

Can you try?

sudo apt update
sudo apt remove devterm-thermal-printer-cups  devterm-thermal-printer -y
sudo apt install -y devterm-thermal-printer-cups  devterm-thermal-printer 
sudo reboot
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❯ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y --purge remove devterm-thermal-printer-cups devterm-thermal-printer
[sudo] password for jtd: 
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease                  
Hit:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease   
Hit:4 https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease                           
Get:5 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clockworkpi/apt/main/debian stable InRelease [5,408 B]
Hit:6 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian bullseye InRelease                 
Hit:7 https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/ownCloud/stable/latest/linux/Debian_11  InRelease
Fetched 5,408 B in 2s (2,629 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
3 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  devterm-thermal-printer* devterm-thermal-printer-cups*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
58 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 168 kB disk space will be freed.
dpkg: error processing package devterm-thermal-printer (--remove):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
 devterm-thermal-printer
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)