I had this same problem. Here was the output requested above.
$ dpkg -l python-mode
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
rc python-mode 1:1.0-3.1ubuntu1 Emacs-lisp python-mode and doctest-mode for the Python language
Purge solved it. Thanks! :)
$ dpkg --purge python-mode
(Reading database ... 197415 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-mode ...
Purging configuration files for python-mode ...
I had this same problem. Here was the output requested above.
$ dpkg -l python-mode Unknown/ Install/ Remove/ Purge/Hold Not/Installed/ Config- f/Unpacked/ Failed- cfg/Half- inst/t- aWait/T- pend /Hold/Reinst- required/ X=both- problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ======= ======= ======= =-===== ======= ======= ======- ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ======= ===
Desired=
| Status=
|/ Err?=(none)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===
rc python-mode 1:1.0-3.1ubuntu1 Emacs-lisp python-mode and doctest-mode for the Python language
Purge solved it. Thanks! :)
$ dpkg --purge python-mode
(Reading database ... 197415 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing python-mode ...
Purging configuration files for python-mode ...