Fix: Error "Blank line" installing Lexmark printer driver on Ubuntu 12.04

The following error occured when I tried to install Lexmarks 2600 Series driver from Lexmark's  site and their package Printer Driver for Debian Package Manager based distros.

dpkg: error processing lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 9 package 'lexmark-inkjet-08-driver':
blank line in value of field 'Description'
Errors were encountered while processing:
lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 but the process should be similar on other versions too. Turns out it's just a parsing error in the deb file, this is how I fixed it:

Downloaded the lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh.zip and extracted the lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh file in a directory called lexmark

Extract the contents of the sh file into a folder called lexmark_install
./lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb.sh --noexec --target lexmark_install

cd lexmark_install

Untar the file called instaarchive_all
tar -xvvf instarchive_all --lzma

Bring out control.tar.gz from the deb package:
ar x lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb control.tar.gz

Untar control.tar.gz
tar xf control.tar.gz

Edit the file control (for example with gedit)
gedit control

It will look similar to this:

Package: lexmark-inkjet-08-driver
Version: 1.0-1
Section: non-free
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Installed-Size:
Maintainer: build <build@linux>
Description:
Lexmark Z2300/X2600 Drivers Package

This package contains the Lexmark Z2300/X2600 Drivers. This is
a copyrighted package, please refer to the copyright notice
for details about using this product.

The problem is the blank lines in description, I just removed most of it making it look like this:

Package: lexmark-inkjet-08-driver
Version: 1.0-1
Section: non-free
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Installed-Size:
Maintainer: build <build@linux>
Description: Lexmark Z2300/X2600 Drivers Package

Then, add the files back to control.tar.gz
tar cfz control.tar.gz ./control ./postinst ./prerm ./preinst

Add control.tar.gz back to the deb file:
ar r lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb control.tar.gz

And finally, install the deb
sudo dpkg --install lexmark-inkjet-08-driver-1.0-1.i386.deb

This is it! If it works your done!

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