Problem uninstalling sivp

same here today. Same architecture (amd64). Ubuntu Jaunty

this time with version: 0.4.3-4 (jaunty, amd64)

I cut part of the text below (not important and very long). Every time I use apt-get I get a sivp error:

ares@aresbuntu:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
[...]
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up sivp (0.4.3-4) ...
dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sivp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ares@aresbuntu:~$

Oh, yes, sry for the double post:

ares@aresbuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux aresbuntu 2.6.28-8-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 6 00:09:20 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ares@aresbuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04
Codename: jaunty

Jaunty is running pretty well here.

I get this too, a warning comes up everytime I add/remove/update packages, and I can't remove sivp to make it stop. Jaunty alpha6.

Same here today.

uname -r -a
Linux meta 2.6.28-9-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 11 15:43:49 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I can't do any install or remove because of this error. How to do?

This bug was fixed in the package sivp - 0.5.0-1ubuntu1

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sivp (0.5.0-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Sylvestre Ledru ]
  * Fix a bug in the build doc process
  * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.0
  * Missing dependencies

  [ Christoph Korn ]
  * debian/control: Added ${misc:Depends} to package sivp
    to make lintian happy
  * postinst and prerm: Fix the lookup for the scilab directory
  * Closes LP: #334362, #340520, #329399

sivp (0.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream version

 -- Christoph Korn <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:54:38 +0100

Hello, I am running Intrepid on amd64, and I am having the same problem. I have successfully (it seems) installed sivp 0.5.0 and scilab 5.1.1, scilab detects sivp 0.5.0 and it works. But Synaptic detects sivp 0.4.3-3 and whenever I install anything i get

Setting up sivp (0.4.3-3) ...
dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  sivp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

The problem turn out to be: files in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ reference a part of the scilab package which doesn't exist: "scilab.star"

Solution: in /var/lib/dpkg/info/postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/prerm and /var/lib/dpkg/info/postrm, rename any mentions of scilab.star to scilab.

Results: With "sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends sivp" it should remove with the complaint "[: 53: /usr/share/scilab: unexpected operator"
This should remove it