Comment 3 for bug 441788

Same problem here dear Dustin! I also cant remove it even by --force-all in Kubuntu 9.10 amd64:

$ sudo apt-get install byobu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  xulrunner-1.9
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  vim
The following packages will be upgraded:
  byobu
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/54.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 135kB disk space will be freed.
Selecting previously deselected package byobu.
(Reading database ... 192267 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace byobu 2.33-0ubuntu1 (using .../byobu_2.38-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/byobu_2.38-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/byobu_2.38-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)