mcginleyr1@T60:~$ sudo apt-get install pidgin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libpostproc0d libavformat0d libavcodec0d Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: fbgetty The following NEW packages will be installed: pidgin 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/603kB of archives. After unpacking 1581kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 152305 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fbgetty ... dpkg: error processing fbgetty (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: fbgetty E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) mcginleyr1@T60:~$