jimmie@jimmie-PC:~$ sudo apt-get remove sun-java6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libthunarx-2-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 sni-qt thunar-data
  indicator-messages-gtk2 xfdesktop4-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sun-java6-jre
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 113 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-jre (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java6-jre
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)