Comments on: [SOLVED] “subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2″ error

By: Muhammad Al-Emam

Muhammad Al-Emam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:05:19 +0000

Thanks man …. you have just saved me

By: Robert Keane

Robert Keane — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:47:11 +0000

A powerful thanks. dpkg s/b more verbose, glad you are.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:21:27 +0000

Thanks a ton! In my case, hddtemp got stuck in limbo when (ironically enough) my computer overheated and shut down during installation of sensors-applet. Now everything’s set up correctly.

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By: Danish

Danish — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:24:30 +0000

Hi this is one page that i will save for eternity.. Thank you very much. It was really irritating to see the errors everytime i installed anything.

By: avanindra

avanindra — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:08:25 +0000

Thanks a lot. You saved my lots of efforts.

By: Ed Welbon

Ed Welbon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:17:52 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I fixed the problem in vim with following change command

:%s/Package:.*\nStatus:.*half-.*$\n$$*//

The trick is to treat the file like one long string and find problematic package paragraph by looking for the portion of the file that contains the string “half-” where the string is preceded by Package: and followed eventually by a blank line. Having found that portion, replace it with nothing. It harder to explain than do A good way to be sure that it works is compare the changed file with a backup of the original file using vim “split diff with …” under the edit tab. I’ve been using vi/vim for 15 years and it still amazes me. It’s much better than beer

By: Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:05:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing it!!

By: demon_edge

demon_edge — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:53:57 +0000

Thanks.. This help my problems.
I’m from Indonesia, sorry I can’t speak English very well

By: ethnopunk

ethnopunk — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:55:35 +0000

In my case it was a lifesaver. Difference between having a slightl broken system and a totally broken system

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1348866

Removing the -e flag in the prerm didn’t work.It keeps returning because of policy on the system. The hack is not ideal. A solution would be better.