root@haze:/home/dezent# apt-get remove finger Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: finger 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 61 not upgraded. 134 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 86.0kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg: error processing finger (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: finger E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)