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--- Begin Message ---Package: steam Version: 1.0.0.39-1 Severity: normal Hi, I had Steam installed for some testing purposes I don't remember, and later I removed it. It didn't get removed completely, there's a couple of files left: $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/steam.* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 27 11:23 /var/lib/dpkg/info/steam.list -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 451 May 27 2013 /var/lib/dpkg/info/steam.postrm I can't remove it with "apt-get remove" because it's counted as already removed: $ sudo apt-get remove steam Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'steam:i386' is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. But I also can't remove it completely with "apt-get purge": $ sudo apt-get purge steam Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: steam:i386* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 8 not upgraded. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 241526 files and directories currently installed.) Removing steam ... Purging configuration files for steam ... dpkg: error processing steam (--purge): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: steam E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I really don't know what part of that script returns status 10, and what that code means, so here I am, asking for some assistance.
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--- Begin Message ---Solved it myself by simply reinstalling Steam and purging it again, this time everything went fine.
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