Re: dpkg broken because of scilab-sivp

[Mike P <mike.polyakov@gmail.com>]

>> $ apt-get remove scilab-sivp
>> ...
>> dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> However, in general, you can bypass this error--"subprocess post-installation
> script returned error"--by removing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.postinst.
> There's also $package.preinst, $package.prerm, and $package.postrm.

Boyd,

This did it! I moved postinst and prerm files out of the way and
successfully uninstalled scilab-sivp. This is a very useful thing to
know about dpkg, just in case some packages are misbehaving.
Thank you so much for answering, I really appreciate your help!