apt-get problems

[Emil Payne]

I've been unable to correct the following for about 2 weeks now.  Any 
ideas how to get back to normal? These interfere with installs and 
updates and upgrades.  Running 9.10
Emil

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root at computer:/home/name# apt-get remove libnetpbm9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libepub0 liblapack3gf libnetpbm9 libpcrecpp0 libqhull5 libzip1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 8,479kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 603554 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libepub0 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing libepub0 (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing liblapack3gf ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing liblapack3gf (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing libnetpbm9 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing libnetpbm9 (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing libpcrecpp0 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing libpcrecpp0 (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Removing 
libqhull5 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing libqhull5 (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Removing 
libzip1 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec 
format error
dpkg: error processing libzip1 (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors 
were encountered while processing:
 libepub0
 liblapack3gf
 libnetpbm9
 libpcrecpp0
 libqhull5
 libzip1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root at computer:/home/name#
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