Lightdm failed to remove (fix)

[Member robertklsz]

Trying to remove lightdm encountered and error in the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/lightdm.prerm.

I found a missing fi around line 56. I added a fi after the “done” statement which seemed to correct the problem.

This was repeatable.

Was not sure where to post this so I gave hear a shot.

[Member flartius]

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Helped me, thanks.

[Moderator christophe]

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Good catch, robertklsz.
(We put how-to articles into “tips & tricks.”) 😉

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[Member gerrygk]

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Thanks, it also perfectly helped me although I got a slightly different error message (unexpected end of file at line 67). But the error was the same (missing “fi” after “done”).

[Member xinomilo]

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thanks, same here with testing package :

Removing lightdm (1.26.0-8.0nosystemd1)
var/lib/dpkg/info/lightdm.prerm: line 67: syntax error: unexpected end of file
dpkg: error processing package lightdm (–remove):
installed lightdm package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit sta
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