ader10@box:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/mpd start * Starting Music Player Daemon mpd * creating ~/tag_cache... [ OK ] ader10@box:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge mpd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: mpd* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 438kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 154885 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mpd ... * Stopping Music Player Daemon mpd [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript mpd, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing mpd (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 action: abort-remove not supported Errors were encountered while processing: mpd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ader10@box:~$ sudo gedit /etc/init.d/mpd