Ubuntu
transmission package

  1. Bug #529318
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 529318

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Marc D. (koshy) wrote : Re: transmission-daemon cannot be uninstalled

I’m sorry, I misinterpreted that output. transmission-daemon is removed, but it leaves behind statoverride configuration, breaking dpkg (output of subsequent package installation attempt):

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 syntax error: unknown user 'debian-transmission' in statoverride file
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.

Removing all lines from /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride that mention the user debian-transmission fixes the issue:

debian-transmission debian-transmission 4775 /var/lib/transmission-daemon/downloads
debian-transmission debian-transmission 4750 /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
debian-transmission debian-transmission 4750 /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json