dkpg problem with dependencies for Ruby

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Hi,

Solved below myself by "hard" removing and purging the packages and completely switching to RVM for Ruby. Will see the exact impact for use within BT. Maybe someone already knows and can enlighten me?


I'm encountering some depency problems in BT5 r3 for Ruby. See below for the error-output:

root@bt:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
9 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: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 7502 package 'magictree':
 error in Version string 'r1643-bt0': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 20959 package 'udptunnel':
 error in Version string 'r19-bt0': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 26589 package 'untidy':
 error in Version string 'beta2-bt1': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 30048 package 'pwntcha':
 error in Version string 'rev4780-bt3': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 35471 package 'android-sdk':
 error in Version string 'r20.0.1-bt0': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 49709 package 'webslayer':
 error in Version string 'rev5-bt0': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55180 package 'wifite':
 error in Version string 'r85-bt1': version number does not start with digit
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 55718 package 'protos-sip':
 error in Version string 'r2-bt1': version number does not start with digit
Setting up ruby1.8 (1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative rdoc can't be slave of ruby: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing ruby1.8 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ruby:
 ruby depends on ruby1.8 (>> 1.8.7.334-1); however:
  Package ruby1.8 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ruby (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ruby-sqlite3:
 ruby-sqlite3 depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter; however:
  Package ruby is not configured yet.
  Package ruby1.8 which provides ruby is not configured yet.
  Package ruby-interpreter is not installed.
  Package ruby1.8 which provides ruby-interpreter is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ruby-sqlite3 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsqlite3-ruby:
 libsqlite3-ruby depends on ruby-sqlite3; however:
  Package ruby-sqlite3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libsqlite3-ruby (--confNo apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                  igure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libsqlite3-ruby1.8:
 libsqlite3-ruby1.8 depends on ruby-sqlite3; however:
  Package ruby-sqlite3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libsqlite3-ruby1.8 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rubygems:
 rubygems depends on ruby1.8; however:
  Package ruby1.8 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing rubygems (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of rake:
 rake depends on ruby | ruby-interpreter; however:
  Package ruby is not configured yet.
  Package ruby1.8 which provides ruby is not configured yet.
  Package ruby-interpreter is not installed.
  Package ruby1.8 which provides ruby-interpreter is not configured yet.
 rake depends on rdoc; however:
  Package rdoc is not installed.
  Package ruby which provides rdoc is not configured yet.
 rake depends on rubygems; however:
  Package rubygems is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing rake (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ri1.8:
 ri1.8 depends on ruby1.8 (>= 1.8.7.352-2ubuntu1); however:
  Package ruby1.8 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ri1.8 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ri:
 ri depends on ri1.8 (>> 1.8.7.334-1); however:
  Package ri1.8 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ri (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ruby1.8
 ruby
 ruby-sqlite3
 libsqlite3-ruby
 libsqlite3-ruby1.8
 rubygems
 rake
 ri1.8
 ri
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ruby does work though, sinde using RVM for that. I am wondering if it safe to remove and prugr these packages?