w165:/etc/apache2# apt-get remove nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED nginx 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 524kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 27412 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nginx ... Stopping nginx: nginx. Stopping nginx: invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing nginx (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Starting nginx: nginx. Errors were encountered while processing: nginx E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)