~$ sudo aptitude -f remove k3d Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: k3d 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 44.5MB will be freed. Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 115483 files and directories currently installed.) Removing k3d ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1348, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1342, in main rv = action.run(global_options) File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 932, in run pkg.read_version_info() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 535, in read_version_info raise PyCentralError, "package has no field Python-Version" __main__.PyCentralError: package has no field Python-Version dpkg: error processing k3d (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1348, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1342, in main rv = action.run(global_options) File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 865, in run pkg.read_version_info() File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 535, in read_version_info raise PyCentralError, "package has no field Python-Version" __main__.PyCentralError: package has no field Python-Version dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: k3d E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: