*@*:/usr/share/cups/model$ sudo aptitude remove nginx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages have been automatically kept back: libfaac0 xserver-xorg-input-synaptics The following packages have been kept back: konversation tzdata The following packages will be REMOVED: nginx 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 528kB will be freed. Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 169193 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nginx ... Stopping nginx: nginx. /var/lib/dpkg/info/nginx.prerm: 39: Syntax error: "else" unexpected dpkg: error processing nginx (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Starting nginx: nginx. Errors were encountered while processing: nginx E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: *@*:/usr/share/cups/model$