Installation of k3d fails and package can't be removed using apt-get/synaptic/aptitude

Binary package hint: k3d

Hi there

Looks like there is a serious bug in the k3d package in Ubuntu edgy and possibly also dapper.

There are a couple of posting on the forums about this, and I have had exactly the same experience.

john@roadwork:~$ sudo apt-get remove k3d
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  k3d
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  k3d
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 44.5MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 151636 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)
john@roadwork:~$

Other postings on this matter:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299546
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=290956
 --- NB "sudo dpkg --configure -a" doesn't help
http://<email address hidden>/msg100609.html
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=10434.msg41380#msg41380