i installed it now cannot uninstall it :: kia-N900:~# apt-get purge meecolay-core Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: meecolay-core* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 73.7kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 30158 files and directories currently installed.) Removing meecolay-core ... rm: can't remove '/opt/meecolay/lib/*': No such file or directory rm: can't remove '/opt/meecolay/bin/*': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing meecolay-core (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Giving the user ownership to /opt/meecolay and subdirectories... chown: /opt/meecolay: No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: meecolay-core E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Nokia-N900:~#