[ale] the mysteries of dpkg

[Jim Philips]

I started out wanting to install a package called ntfs-config on Ubuntu 
Fessty. It had problems with the fuse package. So, I tried to removed fue, 
hoping to reinstall and get rid of the conflicts. Here is the outcome:

rebus at rebus:~$ sudo apt-get remove fuse
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:

(hundreds of packages are listed)

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fuse-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fuse
The following packages will be upgraded:
  fuse-utils
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/77.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 733kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `fuse-utils' missing, 
assuming package has no files currently installed.
300229 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fuse-utils 2.6.3-1ubuntu2 
(using .../fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fuse-utils ...
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/sbin/mount.fuse', which is also in package fuse
postrm called with unknown argument `abort-upgrade'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

There doesn't seem to be any clear way to remove this package or to just 
install ntfs-config. Here is what happens if I just try to install it:

After unpacking 754kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `fuse-utils' missing, 
assuming package has no files currently installed.
300229 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fuse-utils 2.6.3-1ubuntu2 
(using .../fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fuse-utils ...
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/sbin/mount.fuse', which is also in package fuse
postrm called with unknown argument `abort-upgrade'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fuse-utils_2.6.3-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there some way out of this conundrum? 
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