uriah heep wrote:
> the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole
>
>
> sudo dpkg –configure -a
>
> gives below result
>
>
> [sudo] password for uriah:
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sunwderby:
>
> sunwderby depends on sun-java5-jre; however:
>
> Package sun-java5-jre is not installed.
>
<snip>

Do you have a Java runtime installed? That seems to be what is missing
according to the error messages. And it should be the java5 not the
java6 stuff...

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Not that I am aware of.Â* To be positive how do I do a search?
Uriah

On Jan 7, 2008 8:44 PM, Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

uriah heep wrote:
> the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole
>
>
> sudo dpkg –configure -a
>
> gives below result
>
>

> [sudo] password for uriah:
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sunwderby:
>
> sunwderby depends on sun-java5-jre; however:
>
> Package sun-java5-jre is not installed.

>
<snip>

Do you have a Java runtime installed? Â*That seems to be what is missing
according to the error messages. Â*And it should be the java5 not the
java6 stuff...


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uriah heep wrote:
> Not that I am aware of. To be positive how do I do a search?
> Uriah
At the Konsole:

java --version

If you have Java installed, it'll tell you what version it is. If not,
you get an error message. :@)

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uriah heep wrote:

> the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole
>
>
> sudo dpkg ?configure -a
>
> gives below result

...

# sudo aptitude -f install

IE, don't forget the "install".
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In konsole I invoked sudo aptitude -f install

I got









sudo] password for uriah:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Initializing package states... Done

Writing extended state information...
Done

Building tag database... Done

The following packages are BROKEN:

glassfish-bin imq sunwderby

The following packages have been kept
back:

glassfish sun-java5-bin

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed,
0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After
unpacking 0B will be used.

The following packages have unmet
dependencies:

sunwderby: Depends: sun-java5-jre but
it is not installable

glassfish-bin: Depends: sun-java5-jre
but it is not installable

imq: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is
not installable

Resolving dependencies...

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for
the glassfish package. This might mean you
need to manually fix this package.
(due to missing arch)

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for
the sun-java5-bin package. This might mean
you need to manually fix this
package. (due to missing arch)

The following actions will resolve
these dependencies:





Install the following packages:

sun-java5-jre [1.5.0-13-0ubuntu1
(gutsy)]





Score is 41





Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y

The following NEW packages will be
automatically installed:

sun-java5-jre

The following packages have been kept
back:

glassfish sun-java5-bin

The following NEW packages will be
installed:

sun-java5-jre

The following partially installed
packages will be configured:

glassfish-bin imq sunwderby

0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed,
0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After
unpacking 16.6MB will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

Writing extended state information...
Error!

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for
the glassfish package. This might mean you need to manually fix this
package. (due to missing arch)

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for
the sun-java5-bin package. This might mean you need to manually fix
this package. (due to missing arch)

uriah@The-Fourth-Horseman:~$


Is there any way to remove the broken packages.* I tried using remove from aptitude and got the same old error message




Thank you folks for your help

Uriah

















On Jan 8, 2008 8:15 AM, Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca> wrote:

uriah heep wrote:

> the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole
>
>
> *sudo dpkg ?configure -a
>
> gives below result

...


# sudo aptitude -f install

IE, don't forget the "install".
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