Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done dpkg: apache2-common: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2-common (= 2.0.55-4.1). (Reading database ... 116981 files and directories currently installed.) Removing apache2-common ... Stopping apache 2.0 web server...Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/perl.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_perl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed! invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing apache2-common (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: apache2-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libapache2-mod-php4: libapache2-mod-php4 depends on apache2.2-common; however: Package apache2.2-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libapache2-mod-php4