I am having problems installing and uninstalling software using the control panel. It no longer works.

I have used dpkg to install some stuff in both / and /var/lib/install, could that be the problem? If I installed in /var/lib/install as root using dpkg would that have caused a problem with permissions for the GUI installer?

dpkg will still install stuff, but I cannot seem to get it to uninstall.

Any Ideas? I do not really want to re-flash the device, as I have it the way I want it at the moment.

Jon