[Cialug] aptitude fails to remove a package

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Kendall Bailey wrote:
> Any advice to remove a package when aptitude fails?  Here's the output:
> 
> Removing icedtea-java7-bin ...
> update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/jexec does not exist;
> nothing to do! update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors
> dpkg: error processing icedtea-java7-bin (--remove):
>  subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  icedtea-java7-bin
> 

can you touch the file and make it happy?

-barry