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The issue from my last post is still not solved and has rendered the Snap Store useless. I am getting an error that looks like this while uninstalling the Steam Installer.

"Unable to remove 'Steam Installer':
Error while installing package: installed avg2013flx package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1"

Once again: how do I remove any mention of avg2013flx from my system? I made a bad tar install and attempted to manually remove every file that had the characters avg in it. Unfortunately it seems I did a poor job since I'm still getting errors like this.

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Okay, so the issue was resolved about 7 years ago (WOOOHOOO OLD FORUMS) and was centered in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Set that as the primary directory and run

ls |grep (whatever package is causing problems)

This lists incomplete items that is messing with your system. Now remove these with

rm X && rm Y && rm Z && etc etc...

Many, many thanks to these guys

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    Answer looks non-reproducible for me. – N0rbert Dec 12 '21 at 20:57
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    BTW you don't need to `grep` the output of `ls` - you can just put `ls whatever-package*` - result will likely be more readable like that. I would run `rm` on one file at a time rather than in a chain of commands - typing isn't saved here and there might be an error that holds things up. You'll also need `sudo` to `rm` files in this directory. Also future readers please note that this isn't a proper method - one should run `sudo dpkg --purge whatever-package` and only resort to deleting files manually if everything else has failed - you can cause further issues by doing that – Zanna Dec 14 '21 at 08:15
  • The original issue wasn't solvable by dpkg. It was an incomplete tar install that just wouldn't go away – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Dec 16 '21 at 01:03
  • @N0rbert Did you type this literally? I used X, Y, and Z to describe whatever package is giving you trouble. I have done this twice now for bad installs so it should work. – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Dec 16 '21 at 15:14
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    well software installed from source usually only makes entries in `/var/lib/dpkg/info` if one uses `checkinstall` to make a deb package at install time, in which case there is no ordinary reason why purging with `dpkg` would not work. Even if this procedure was the only thing that worked in your case, I left the comment for other readers who could benefit from trying a more standard approach first. – Zanna Dec 17 '21 at 09:43
  • That's good of you. I don't know, maybe I got a bad version, maybe I'll just avoid tar files like the plague since I don't understand them. But for anyone diving deep into the archives of the internet to find this, please do lots and lots of reading before installing anything. Especially tars. – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Jan 01 '22 at 07:47