bjwebb@webb-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove icedtea-java7-bin icedtea-java7-jre Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED icedtea-java7-bin icedtea-java7-jre 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 82.7MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y (Reading database ... 126690 files and directories currently installed.) Removing icedtea-java7-bin ... update-binfmts: warning: /var/lib/binfmts/jexec does not exist; nothing to do! update-binfmts: exiting due to previous errors dpkg: error processing icedtea-java7-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: icedtea-java7-jre: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: icedtea-java7-bin depends on icedtea-java7-jre (>= 7~b19-1.3+20070905-0ubuntu1). Removing icedtea-java7-jre ... Errors were encountered while processing: icedtea-java7-bin E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) bjwebb@webb-desktop:~$