Stuck package in sptitude

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Monday 17 November 2008 1:18:24 pm Wulfy wrote:
>> Art Alexion wrote:
>> > I assume you have tried 'sudo aptitude -f install'?
>>
>> Yes, I had.  This is the result:
>>
>> wulfy at wulfy-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude -f install
...
>> dpkg: error processing ttf-mathematica4.1 (--purge):
>> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> ttf-mathematica4.1

It's crude, and one of these days I'll break something, but generally 
when a pre-removal script breaks I just go into /var/lib/dpkg/info and 
remove the relevant .prerm file.  Then run "sudo dpkg --configure -a".

Then *inst scripts are another matter, because they're probably trying 
to set up something necessary, but the *rm scripts usually just leave 
some cruft if you skip them.
-- 
derek