Ok. This is the file I have analyzed yesterday. It's pre-remove script, which is invoked just before removing the package itselft. You don't have to be a programmer to understand what's inside. Basicaly it's just check for presence of file defined in $UNINSTALL_NAME variable (the old famous /etc/init.d/imhere-0.3.uninstall file :-) If it not exists then exit 1 - which means failure = error code(1). You already seen this error: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). As result uninstallation will fail. If that file exists than packages should be uninstalled normaly (my case). This was just boring introduction how deb(s) works. I don't understand why you cannot uninstall package the way I mentioned before, anyway you can try at you risk. Code: rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/imhere-0.3.prerm rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/imhere-0.3.postinst dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq imhere-0.3 Probably it would be good idea to kill process imhere-0.3 before: Code: killall imhere-0.3
rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/imhere-0.3.prerm rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/imhere-0.3.postinst dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq imhere-0.3
killall imhere-0.3