i've tried removing the package, and now it's blocking installation of other packages: error message: (Reading database ... 264224 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace culmus-fancy 0.0.20051018-2 (using .../culmus-fancy_0.0.20051018-2_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement culmus-fancy ... usage error: unrecognized option Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ... update-fonts-dir { -h | --help } This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information. Options: -h, --help display this usage message and exit dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... usage error: unrecognized option Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ... update-fonts-dir { -h | --help } This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information. Options: -h, --help display this usage message and exit dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/culmus-fancy_0.0.20051018-2_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 usage error: unrecognized option Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ... update-fonts-dir { -h | --help } This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information. Options: -h, --help display this usage message and exit dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/culmus-fancy_0.0.20051018-2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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