Re: Can't purge wxdesigneru installed partially.

[Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com>]

Csanyi Pal <csanyipal@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I downloaded wxdesigneru from here:
> http://www.wxdesigner-software.de/wxdesigneru_2.20-2_amd64.deb
>
> and tried to install it but failed.
>
> Now I'm trying to purge this debian package with command:
>
> sudo dpkg -P wxdesigneru
> (Reading database ... 367548 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing wxdesigneru ...
> xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.
> dpkg: error processing wxdesigneru (--purge):
>  subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 3
> xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 3
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  wxdesigneru

> What can I do to solve this problem?

I find the solution here:
http://www.piprime.fr/1480/manually-remove-broken-package-debian-ubuntu/

mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/PACKAGE.* /tmp/
dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq PACKAGE

-- 
Regards from Pal