Stuck package, cant remove

[Dave S]

I have a corrupted stuck vmware-player package, I cant install it, remove it 
or purge it. any ideas on how to get rid of it ?

Dave



root at dave-comp:~#
root at dave-comp:~# dpkg -P --force-all vmware-player
(Reading database ... 242415 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vmware-player ...
Stopping VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
/etc/init.d/vmware-player: 765: /usr/lib/vmware-player/net-services.sh: not 
found
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--purge):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
/etc/init.d/vmware-player: 765: /usr/lib/vmware-player/net-services.sh: not 
found
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
root at dave-comp:~# apt-get install --reinstall vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  kaffeine-xine hwdb-client-kde kontact subversion ksysguard kde-icons-mono 
kaffeine kbstate python-qt4 kmailcvt kmousetool kmag
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ...
Now configuring VMware Player.  (This may take some time...)
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/vmware-player/share/locations.dist': No such file or 
directory
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)




root at dave-comp:~#
root at dave-comp:~#
root at dave-comp:~# apt-get install --reinstall vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  kaffeine-xine hwdb-client-kde kontact subversion ksysguard kde-icons-mono 
kaffeine kbstate python-qt4 kmailcvt kmousetool kmag
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ...
Now configuring VMware Player.  (This may take some time...)
cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/vmware-player/share/locations.dist': No such file or 
directory
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at dave-comp:~#
root at dave-comp:~#