Ubuntu
phpmyadmin package

Unable to remove/purge: phpmyadmin.prerm: line 12: db_get: command not found

Bug #5904 reported by Loic Pefferkorn on 2005-12-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #4811: phpmyadmin.prerm: line 12: db_get: command not found. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	phpmyadmin (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned
	Breezy	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Running Breezy:

loic@iron:~$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
(...)
loic@iron:~$ sudo apt-get remove phpmyadmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
phpmyadmin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 11.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 89657 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing phpmyadmin ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/phpmyadmin.prerm: line 12: db_get: command not found
dpkg: error processing phpmyadmin (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
phpmyadmin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Loic Pefferkorn (loic) wrote on 2005-12-18:

Was fixed in Dapper (#4811)

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Loic Pefferkorn (loic) wrote on 2005-12-18:

This bug comes from Breezy version of yada, problem corrected in versions >=0.44

yada (0.44) unstable; urgency=medium

* Generate debconf header for preinst and prerm scripts.

-- Piotr Roszatycki <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Sep 2005 23:19:12 +0200

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) on 2005-12-19

Changed in phpmyadmin:
assignee:	nobody → motu

Eve La Fée (ubuntu-evelafee) on 2006-03-20

Changed in phpmyadmin:
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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Eve La Fée (ubuntu-evelafee) wrote on 2006-03-20: Corrected version of phpmyadmin.prerm

Corrected version of phpmyadmin.prerm Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain)

Added '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule'.

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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote on 2006-03-28:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs which you find.