Comment 3 for bug 1677197

ozzie@ozzie-R780-R778:~$ sudo apt-get purge libaudiofile1:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libaudiofile1*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 305 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing package libaudiofile1:i386 (--purge):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libaudiofile1:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ozzie@ozzie-R780-R778:~$