apt-get error codes

Hello SuSE users and apt-get experts. Just upgraded my apt-get to .54 version for an 8.0 box. Did an update, using Synaptic, and chose to upgrade 14 new KDE packages (3.04 from 3.03) Packages downloaded OK When apt executed the rpm _U I received the following error code message. "Sub-process /bin/rpm returned n error code of 14" Tried to do the packages individually and the error code was "1". What's up? Has it something to do with the RPM3 vs 4 ? And, most of all how do I fix this? Bob S.