Problema em remover bootsplash-theme-newlinux

[RicardoFunke <ricardo.debian@gmail.com>]

Pessoal, ainda não consegui remover este pacote da minha máquina,  a
mensagem que dá é a seguinte:

# aptitude remove bootsplash-theme-newlinux
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  bootsplash-theme-newlinux
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 877kB will be freed.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 147741 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing bootsplash-theme-newlinux ...
dpkg: error processing bootsplash-theme-newlinux (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bootsplash-theme-newlinux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done



O que eu devo fazer???????