I get exactly the same problem, sudo apt-get adiumsudo apt-get remove adium-theme-ubuntu --purge E: Invalid operation adiumsudo laz...@ubuntu-hp:/usr/share$ sudo apt-get remove adium-theme-ubuntu --purge Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: adium-theme-ubuntu* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 426kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 128395 files and directories currently installed.) Removing adium-theme-ubuntu ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing adium-theme-ubuntu (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: adium-theme-ubuntu E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) laz...@ubuntu-hp:/usr/share$ sudo apt-get remove adium-theme-ubuntu --purge Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: adium-theme-ubuntu* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 426kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 128395 files and directories currently installed.) Removing adium-theme-ubuntu ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing adium-theme-ubuntu (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: adium-theme-ubuntu E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) laz...@ubuntu-hp:/usr/share$ sudo apt-get remove adium-theme-ubuntu --purge Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done yThe following packages will be REMOVED: adium-theme-ubuntu* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 426kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 128395 files and directories currently installed.) Removing adium-theme-ubuntu ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed pre-removal script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing adium-theme-ubuntu (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: adium-theme-ubuntu E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
--- I have not tried to fix it manually, just to be sure this is a bug in the package or in apt-deg or dpkg (I doubt it). Running several times the same command: sudo apt-get remove adium-theme-ubuntu --purge does not help. I just get the same error message. Tried reinstalling & removing (with Synaptic) but did not work either. -- adium-theme won't install - unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/538304 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
