error when re-installing privoxy

dpkg: error processing privoxy (--configure)

Thanks to the package maintainer who helped me with this solution. I found a less-than-elegant solution by digging into the .deb package and manually extracting out the /etc/privoxy files so the chown would work. At first, I thought it was a package error, but the maintainer helped me understand how dpkg works in conjunction to uninstalling packages.

Here's what we need to do (the first line is expected to error out):

sudo apt-get install privoxy
sudo apt-get --purge remove privoxy
sudo apt-get install privoxy