/home/user # apt-get remove openssh-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: openssh-client Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: openssh openssh-server 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 74 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 463kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 19514 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openssh ... Removing openssh-server ... /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: eval: line 1: echo/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh: not found invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh" invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh" dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 102 Errors were encountered while processing: openssh-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) /home/user # dpkg --purge openssh-server (Reading database ... 19514 files and directories currently installed.) Removing openssh-server ... /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: eval: line 1: echo/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh: not found invoke-rc.d: not a symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh" invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: "/etc/rc2.d/S55ssh" dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--purge): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 102 Errors were encountered while processing: openssh-server