$ sudo apt remove chromium-browser
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
chromium-browser
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 164 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
dpkg: error processing package chromium-browser (--remove):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
chromium-browser
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)