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problem with rpm :(

Hello every time I do apt-get upgrade i get this error msg:

Code:

root@bt:~# sudo apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

  linux-image linux-image-generic

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Setting up rpm (4.7.2-1lubuntu0.1) ...

Trying rpm init...

error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available

RPM failed to open database, cleaning it up...

Creating /var/backups/...

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Trying rpm init...

error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available

dpkg: error processing rpm (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 254

Errors were encountered while processing:

 rpm

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I cant do nothing did search all over the web and no one ask for error status 254 :( please anyone can help me

I did apt-get -f install not work

and every time i do something i get this msg befor the error

in the attachment

apt is a high end package manager, meaning it resolves dependencies, fetches them, and all that fancy schmizzle, Dpkg, is a low end package manager you will have installed, which apt utilizes to do the actual installing of .deb packages.
rpm is a low end package manager, very similar to dpkg, however it is designed to work with .rpm packages instead of .deb packages. I'm assuming you're using Lubuntu. Lubuntu is a .deb based distro, which means, it should not have to deal with rpm packages. I have no idea why you have the rpm package manager installed when you have dpkg. Runnning,

Code:

sudo apt-get remove rpm

should fix your issue by simply removing rpm.
If you desire to install a program, do it with, 'sudo apt-get install "foo"'. If you need to do a manual install by downloading the package off the internet, and then installing later, then use dpkg, not rpm, which means you download the .deb package, not the .rpm package: always try sudo apt-get, before this method though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Knightron (Post 5021702)

Code:

sudo apt-get remove rpm

thanks for your help but when i did it it gives me this msg

Code:

root@bt:~# sudo apt-get remove rpm

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

and when i did what it said i got this

Code:

root@bt:~# sudo dpkg --configure -a

Setting up rpm (4.7.2-1lubuntu0.1) ...

Trying rpm init...

error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available

RPM failed to open database, cleaning it up...

Creating /var/backups/...

tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Trying rpm init...

error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available

dpkg: error processing rpm (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 254

Errors were encountered while processing:

 rpm

Solved :D

after I did this I tried agian sudo apt-get remove rpm and it`s removed :D thank you very much :D