chmod: cannot access /etc/init.d/sd-agent: No such file or directory

You may find this error during installation after having removed the agent previously.

This article is for our v1 agent and will soon be deprecated.

The following partially installed packages will be configured: 
sd-agent 
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. 
Setting up sd-agent (1.11.3) ... 
Listing /usr/bin/sd-agent/ ... 
chmod: cannot access `/etc/init.d/sd-agent': No such file or directory 
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/sd-agent: file does not exist 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sd-agent.postinst: 13: /etc/init.d/sd-agent: not found 
dpkg: error processing sd-agent (--configure): 
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 127 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
sd-agent 
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 
A package failed to install. Trying to recover: 
Setting up sd-agent (1.11.3) ... 
Listing /usr/bin/sd-agent/ ... 
chmod: cannot access `/etc/init.d/sd-agent': No such file or directory 
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/sd-agent: file does not exist 
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sd-agent.postinst: 13: /etc/init.d/sd-agent: not found 
dpkg: error processing sd-agent (--configure): 
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 127 
Errors were encountered while processing: 
sd-agent

This is caused by an incomplete removal of the agent. You can fix this by executing these commands:

sudo rm /etc/init.d/sd-agent
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get purge sd-agent 
sudo apt-get install sd-agent
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