ubuntu12.04 only: version number does not start with digit

[Preston Hagar]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, ping <songpingemail at gmail.com> wrote:
> ping at 640g-laptop:~/Dropbox/temp-transfer$ sudo apt-get remove dibbler-client
>
>
> So It looks I can't either delete the "dibbler-client" package, nor can I
> upgrade it...
> any ideal?
>
> thanks alot !
>
>
> regards
> ping

You might try

sudo apt-get remove --purge dibbler-client

If that doesn't work, try

dpkg --remove --force-remove dibbler-client

Hopefully that should get rid of it.  Then you should be able to do an
update and upgrade.  If not, post the error output of the two commands
above to the list.

Preston