rich@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mythtv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package mythtv is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up mythtv-database (0.18.1-5ubuntu3) ...
Failed to connect to database: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at -e line 5, <> line 1.
Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?)
If you supplied incorrect information, try:
dpkg-reconfigure --force mythtv-database
dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mythtv-database
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)