Failed to remove a pkg

[Glenn Tobey]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried to remove ` icedtea-java7-plugin' using four different
>  methods. No go. Any other suggestion would be appreciated.
>
>  I am running Hardy beta
>
>  (iqbala)@ghar:~$ sudo apt-get purge icedtea-java7-plugin
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree
>  Reading state information... Done
>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  icedtea-java7-plugin*
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 139kB disk space will be freed.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>  dpkg: error processing icedtea-java7-plugin (--purge):
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>  icedtea-java7-plugin
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
>  (iqbala)@ghar:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall icedtea-java7-plugin
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree
>  Reading state information... Done
>  Reading extended state information
>  Initializing package states... Done
>  Building tag database... Done
>  The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
>  icedtea-java7-plugin
>  0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and
>  0 not upgraded.
>  Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
>  Writing extended state information... Error!
>  E: I wasn't able to locate file for the icedtea-java7-plugin package.
>  This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
>
>
>  Tried to remove using synaptics. I get an incomplete error message
>
>  "E: icedtea-java7-plugin: Package is in a very bad inconsistent
>  state - you should"
>
>  (iqbala)@ghar:~$ sudo apt-get remove icedtea-java7-plugin
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree
>  Reading state information... Done
>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  icedtea-java7-plugin
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 139kB disk space will be freed.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
>  dpkg: error processing icedtea-java7-plugin (--remove):
>  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
>  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>  icedtea-java7-plugin
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
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I dont know if it will help but try running
sudo dpkg-reconfigure icedtea-java7-plugin
then try to remove it
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