Comment 4 for bug 205308

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: package update-manager 1:0.87.14 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is what causes the error:

Setting up doc-linux-html (2007.11-1) ...
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21:in `require': no such file to load -- bdb (LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/dhelp.rb:21
        from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27:in `require'
        from /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse:27
dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1