Fixing “Package is in a very bad inconsistent state” apt errors
Google Cloud got into a real pickle over installing google-cloud-cli using apt, leaving me with repeated Package is in a very bad inconsistent state errors every time I tried to run a sudo apt full-upgrade.
This fixed it:
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/<packagename>.* /tmp/
sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq <packagename>
sudo apt-get remove <packagename>
sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean
… which I found here (dated over 13 years ago 😄)