removing slimrat fails when using fetch-slimrat-svn-ubuntu-package.sh generated debs

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. run fetch-slimrat-svn-ubuntu-package.sh and create deb files
2. install .deb files
3. try uninstalling .deb files


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect slimrat to uninstall properly Instead, I get this:
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$ sudo apt-get remove slimrat
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  slimrat
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 26 not upgraded.
After this operation, 122kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 244071 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing slimrat ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/slimrat.postrm: 4: update-menus: not found
dpkg: error processing slimrat (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slimrat
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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This leaves slimrat in a half installed state which prevents me from installing 
or uninstalling anything new.

My only solution was to edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/slimrat.postrm and comment out 
the line trying to run update-menus.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I am running ubuntu lucid 10.04. 
It apparently does not have update-menus installed

Please provide any additional information below.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/slimrat.postrm assumes that update-menus is installed. Here 
is the file:
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#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installmenu
if [ -x  ]; then update-menus ; fi
# End automatically added section

update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor
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Contrast this with /var/lib/dpkg/info/slimrat.postinst, which checks to make 
sure update-menus exists:
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#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_installmenu
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
  update-menus
fi
# End automatically added section
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Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 22 Dec 2010 at 11:45

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I tested on fresh install of Ubuntu 10.10.

At first script need to be updated - add package "menu". 

So "sudo apt-get install subversion coreutils dpkg fakeroot gawk menu"

Then I build packages of slimrat, but there is still many missing packages. So, 
after 
 "sudo dpkg -i slimrat-nox_*.deb slimrat_*.deb" I need, to do "sudo apt-get install -f" to install missing dependencies.

Here is list of missing dependencies:
aview imagemagick libcdt4 libcrypt-ssleay-perl libfilter-perl libgraph4 
libgtk2-gladexml-perl libgvc5 libhttp-server-simple-perl libilmbase6 
libio-socket-ssl-perl libmagickcore3-extra libnet-libidn-perl 
libnet-ssleay-perl libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpathplan4 libspiffy-perl 
libwww-mechanize-perl libxdot4 netpbm tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng xclip

So, after all command before building have to be "sudo apt-get install 
subversion coreutils dpkg fakeroot gawk menu aview imagemagick libcdt4 
libcrypt-ssleay-perl libfilter-perl libgraph4 libgtk2-gladexml-perl libgvc5 
libhttp-server-simple-perl libilmbase6 libio-socket-ssl-perl 
libmagickcore3-extra libnet-libidn-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libnetpbm10 
libopenexr6 libpathplan4 libspiffy-perl libwww-mechanize-perl libxdot4 netpbm 
tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng xclip"

Original comment by [email protected] on 18 Feb 2011 at 7:54