andrew@U-box:~$ sudo apt-get remove wine [sudo] password for andrew: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: wine 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking, 53.5MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: error processing wine (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: wine E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)