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I find troubles installing/removing/upgrading a half-installed package kibana. I probably edited kibana.yml file the wrong way and cant manage to get it working back.

[09:32] ***-VM:cache$ sudo apt-get --purge remove kibana
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  kibana*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 124 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg: error processing package kibana (--purge):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
kibana
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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  • Have you tried reinstalling it before trying to remove it? As the error message is suggesting as well.
    – dufte
    May 23, 2016 at 7:49

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Things you can use to resolve this situation:

  1. reinstalling and then removing

    sudo apt-get install --reinstall kibana
sudo apt-get remove kibana

  2. single remove without purge 

    sudo apt-get remove kibana

  3. force installing and removing 

    sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get remove --purge kibana

  4. force removing by dpkg

    sudo dpkg -r --force kibana
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