apt error weirder

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  chromium-browser* chromium-browser-l10n* chromium-chromedriver*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 287 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 363733 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing chromium-chromedriver (49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1223) ...
Removing chromium-browser-l10n (49.0.2623.108-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1223) ...
dpkg: error processing package chromium-browser (--purge):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 chromium-browser
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)