Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

[Charles Wisdom]

Experienced crash on install. Receiving the following error message. Will not allow me to reinstall.

installArchives() failed: dpkg: error processing ssldump (--remove):

 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should

 reinstall it before attempting a removal.

Errors were encountered while processing:

 ssldump

[Charles Wisdom (okieknight71)]

App will not allow me to install or uninstall. When trying to install other app I recieve the following....

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 779, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 958, in _simulate_helper
    return depends, status, self._cache.required_download, \
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 218, in required_download
    pm.get_archives(fetcher, self._list, self._records)
SystemError: E:I wasn't able to locate file for the ssldump package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.