How to remove all associated files and configuration settings of an app installed through 'force architecture' command

A few weeks ago I installed a 32 bit .deb file through the 'force architecture' command (on my 64bit notebook), however the procedure was unsuccessful and I used the apt-get purgecommand to uninstall the app. It seems there are some leftovers of the app I uninstalled which has now broken system update. Synaptic recommended a sudo apt-get install -fwhich I did in the terminal with this initial response:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required: libntfs10 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: crossplatformui 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

up vote 1 down I chose 'Y' then got this response: vote (Reading database ... 187616 files and directories currently installed.) favorite Removing crossplatformui ...
ztemtvcdromd: no process found dpkg: error processing crossplatformui (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: crossplatformui E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It seems the app I installed crossplatformuiis still on my system and has caused update manager to stop running with a partial upgrade warning. What do I do now? 11.10 update-manager synaptic asked Dec 2 '11 at 22:56 edited Sep 18 at 10:07 shareimprove this question Mysterio Bibhas 2,21621456 1138 99% accept rate

now I can't install anything as Software center and terminal both report that the package 'crossplatformui' needs to be uninstalled first Please help Mysterio Dec 2 '11 at 23:06 There is a similar question on launchpad located:answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/ +question/122715 Can you see if step #6 helps if your comfortable with trying it. itnet7 Dec 2 '11 at 23:22 Seems he had to reinstall Ubuntu as he wasn't able to solve the issue Mysterio Dec 3 '11 at 0:47 Had you tried remove it? sudo apt-get remove crossplatformui Andre Gil Dec 3 '11 at 4:20 feedback

4 Answers
active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted I solved the problem. I had same problem as you had. So what I did: 1- Go to Synaptic Package Manager and Remove [CrossPlatformUI] and all it's dependencies. + May be there still some package will be remain. No problem. 2- As is mentioned above, Run:
gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

in terminal. 3- Search in the search area [Package: crossplatformui] You will find four or five line address. I forgot those lines and I can not find them because they are removed. But, any way; follow every line address to find those files. 4- When you find exact files, Right Click on that and choose open as administrator. When file is open, Remove the content of those and save it. 5- Do it for all files. Now go back to Synaptic Package Manager, and mark those package which are remain as completely remove. Synaptic Package Manager will remove those. 6- finally go to terminal again and run again:
gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

7- Search for [Package: crossplatformui] again and delete all the informations. 8- You are done. You can check in terminal by running:
sudo apt-get remove CrossPlatformUI

9- As soon as you connect to Internet, run:

sudo apt-get update

If you were right, there must be no error. I hope this can help you, and sorry if I have forgot something. I am new to Linux. Good luck. answered Jun 28 at 14:01 shareimprove this answer edited Jun 28 at 14:14 Mehdi Bateni 435

feedback Maybe we can bypass dpkg like this. First backup your original file: sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.orig After that open it to edit: gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status Search for a block something like that: Package: crossplatformui up vote 3 down vote .. .. Package: another_package_name Here, you will delete only crossplatformui block. This means starting with Package: crossplatformui and till the other package block. After deleting the blocak try to remove it again: sudo dpkg -r crossplatformui