illwolf@mit[~]$ sudo apt-get remove apache2.2-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2-mpm-worker apache2.2-common 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 4202kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 90550 files and directories currently installed.) Removing apache2-mpm-worker ... invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/apache2 not found. dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-worker (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 100 dpkg: apache2.2-common: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: apache2-mpm-worker depends on apache2.2-common (= 2.2.3-3.3). Removing apache2.2-common ... Errors were encountered while processing: apache2-mpm-worker E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) illwolf@mit[~]$