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There's no way I can remove the WPS Office... I installed WPS Office 2019 For Linux v. 11.1.0.9080 from wps-office_11.1.0.9080.XA_amd64.deb using GDebi. Now I need to remove it. In Ubuntu 19.10 I use command:

$ sudo apt-get purge wps-office

I have got result:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  wps-office*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,140 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 308773 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing wps-office (11.1.0.9080.XA) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 8, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 1252, in __getitem__
    return self._parser.get(self._name, key)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 799, in get
    d)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 394, in before_get
    self._interpolate_some(parser, option, L, value, section, defaults, 1)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/configparser.py", line 444, in _interpolate_some
    "found: %r" % (rest,))
configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%U_1918052320.desktop;org.gnome.Evince.desktop;'
dpkg: error processing package wps-office (--remove):
 installed wps-office package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
 wps-office
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there anything I can do about it?

Vladimir
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  • Did you changed Python in your system? Please also add output of sudo find / -name "*1918052320.desktop" to determine the location of the %U_1918052320.desktop file from the error message. – N0rbert Feb 09 '20 at 20:30
  • I'm newbie to Linux and Ubuntu. I hope I haven't changed. But I recently installed the python with an anaconda distribution. As far as I can understand, an anaconda puts the python in a completely different place than system (Ubuntu's) python3. The output of you command:

    find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied find: ‘/run/user/1000/gvfs’: Permission denied /home/vgrinkov/.local/share/applications/dc_evince %U_1918052320.desktop

     – Vladimir Feb 09 '20 at 20:48
  • I would recommend to move the problematic desktop file out the way with mv /home/vgrinkov/.local/share/applications/dc_evince %U_1918052320.desktop ~/wrong.desktop and then resume uninstallation. – N0rbert Feb 12 '20 at 20:50
  • got the same result (same lines) ... configparser.InterpolationSyntaxError: '%' must be followed by '%' or '(', found: '%U_1918052320.desktop;org.gnome.Evince.desktop;' dpkg: error processing package wps-office (--purge): installed wps-office package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: wps-office – Vladimir Feb 13 '20 at 11:08

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I can't reproduce the problem on fresh Ubuntu 19.10 VM, but if apt-get fails - you can try low-level command:

sudo dpkg --purge wps-office

(see man dpkg for details locally or online)

N0rbert
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  • N0rbert, thank you for the advice. The command: sudo dpkg --purge wps-office produced the same output... – Vladimir Feb 09 '20 at 17:27