[svlug] Removing stubborn Debian package

[stripes]

Since the maintainer of the nessus package says he doesn't maintain it (grr), I need to forcefully remove a package that doesn't want to go away.

I have tried:

# dpkg --remove --purge nessus
# dpkg --remove --force-depends nessus
# dpkg --remove --force-conflicts nessus

And I always get the same thing:
# dpkg -r --force-depends Nessus
(Reading database ... 76294 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nessus ...
dpkg: error processing nessus (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nessus

Help, please!  Thanks in advance,

-Anne
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