Mick,
I tried the terminal commands and here is the output. It still failed when on autoremove, and then trying to force.
Thanks for your help so far.
Jon.
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get update
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http://deb.opera.com stable Release.gpg
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http://packages.linuxmint.com helena Release.gpg [198B]
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http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [189B]
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http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic Release.gpg
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http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Translation-en_GB [63.7kB]
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http://packages.linuxmint.com helena Release [7,251B]
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http://dl.google.com stable Release [2,540B]
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http://dl.google.com stable/main Packages [914B]
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Fetched 155kB in 4s (37.6kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Del thunderbird-mozilla-build 3.0-0ubuntu1 [12.0MB]
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get clean
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
thunderbird-mozilla-build
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 130082 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing thunderbird-mozilla-build ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on package
when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/thunderbird to /usr/bin/thunderbird.ubuntu by thunderbird-mozilla-build'
found `local diversion of /usr/bin/thunderbird to /usr/bin/thunderbird.ubuntu'
dpkg: error processing thunderbird-mozilla-build (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
thunderbird-mozilla-build
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo dpkg --remove --force --force-remove-reinstreq thunderbird
dpkg: unknown force/refuse option `--force-remove-reinstreq'
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license|--licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
jon@jon-laptop ~ $ sudo dpkg --remove -force --force-remove-reinstreq thunderbird
dpkg: conflicting actions -f (--field) and -r (--remove)
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license|--licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*].
Options marked [*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !