Re: Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin

On 10/02/2008, cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages.
> Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished
> upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop.
> Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this.
> Here is what has been coming back from any aptitude commands:
>
>
> Preparing to replace sun-java5-bin 1.5.0-14-2 (using .../sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-14-2_i386.deb)

you could try running,

#dpkg --configure -a

But likely I suspect it will fail.

Another option is possibly to pre-empt it and go ahead and delete: /usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png

The original script mightn't bork at that part then.

Adrian

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