LinuxQuestions.org - un-install .ipk

hi,
last night i "accidentally" (in a lets see what happens sorta way) used gdebi to install an .ipk to my mint9 box (.ipk was to play palmpre games on my n900)
but now i cannot remove it (never used ipk before) an google on leads me to mameo/n900 sites
an terminal spits it dummy:

Code:

┌─[rich]──[SubGenius]:~$

└──>>sudo apt-get purge com.ea.app.sims*

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

Note, selecting com.ea.app.sims for regex ‘com.ea.app.sims*’

The following packages will be REMOVED

  com.ea.app.sims*

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 16 not upgraded.

After this operation, 93.7MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

(Reading database ... 60%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:

 files list file for package `com.ea.app.sims' contains empty filename

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

┌─[rich]──[SubGenius]:~$

any ideas people