sudo apt-get remove thttpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: apache2-utils libapr0 thttpd Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: thttpd 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 221kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 63270 files and directories currently installed.) Removing thttpd ... Stopping web server: kill: 60: No such process dpkg: error processing thttpd (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: thttpd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)