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The issue from my last post is still not solved and has rendered the Snap Store useless. I am getting an error that looks like this while uninstalling the Steam Installer.

"Unable to remove 'Steam Installer':
Error while installing package: installed avg2013flx package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1"

Once again: how do I remove any mention of avg2013flx from my system? I made a bad tar install and attempted to manually remove every file that had the characters avg in it. Unfortunately it seems I did a poor job since I'm still getting errors like this.

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Okay, so the issue was resolved about 7 years ago (WOOOHOOO OLD FORUMS) and was centered in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Set that as the primary directory and run

ls |grep (whatever package is causing problems)

This lists incomplete items that is messing with your system. Now remove these with

rm X && rm Y && rm Z && etc etc...

Many, many thanks to these guys

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    Answer looks non-reproducible for me. – N0rbert Dec 12 '21 at 20:57
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    BTW you don't need to grep the output of ls - you can just put ls whatever-package* - result will likely be more readable like that. I would run rm on one file at a time rather than in a chain of commands - typing isn't saved here and there might be an error that holds things up. You'll also need sudo to rm files in this directory. Also future readers please note that this isn't a proper method - one should run sudo dpkg --purge whatever-package and only resort to deleting files manually if everything else has failed - you can cause further issues by doing that – Zanna Dec 14 '21 at 08:15
  • The original issue wasn't solvable by dpkg. It was an incomplete tar install that just wouldn't go away – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Dec 16 '21 at 01:03
  • @N0rbert Did you type this literally? I used X, Y, and Z to describe whatever package is giving you trouble. I have done this twice now for bad installs so it should work. – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Dec 16 '21 at 15:14
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    well software installed from source usually only makes entries in /var/lib/dpkg/info if one uses checkinstall to make a deb package at install time, in which case there is no ordinary reason why purging with dpkg would not work. Even if this procedure was the only thing that worked in your case, I left the comment for other readers who could benefit from trying a more standard approach first. – Zanna Dec 17 '21 at 09:43
  • That's good of you. I don't know, maybe I got a bad version, maybe I'll just avoid tar files like the plague since I don't understand them. But for anyone diving deep into the archives of the internet to find this, please do lots and lots of reading before installing anything. Especially tars. – BaddaBeepBaddaBoop Jan 01 '22 at 07:47