How do i force removal of a package :

[Patrick]

Hi,

> That's not surprising as the error is coming from dpkg itself, not apt.
>   I don't know why you are trying to force things when the system is
> telling you there is a problem.  You should be trying to fix the problem.
>
> Read the dpkg man page, especially the debugging section.  Try to purge
> the package with dpkg, with the relevant debug switched on.  Hopefully
> this will shed some light on "subprocess pre-removal script returned
> error exit status 10".  Have you looked at the pre-removal script in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info?

I'm pretty sure that the error's coming from behind the wrapper as
you've said ( considering that apt-get/aptitude both do the same ),
but this doesn't seem to fix my problem, it won't let me re-install
the package, nor will it tell me how to remove it.

However, i've looked at the pre-removal scripts, and i can't honestly
make heads or tails of it... :(

any ideas? And also how would one fix this for a future ubuntu user
that doesn't know where to look, or what to do ?

Patrick