apt-get remove phpmyadmin causes errors

[Brent Stephens]

Apparently there is a fix in the following thread. Below the thread link is the error.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=79934.

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]? y
(Reading database ... 77249 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)

[Gary Coady (garycoady)]

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.