E: Unable to locate package install
john@john-Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get purge ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  linux-headers-3.5.0-17
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ttf-mscorefonts-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 53 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]?
dpkg: error processing ttf-mscorefonts-installer (--purge):
 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:
 ttf-mscorefonts-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
john@john-Ubuntu:~$