James H. H. Lampert wrote: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> openjdk-8-jdk : Depends: openjdk-8-jre (= 8u171-b11-1~bpo8+1) but it is >> not going to be installed Depends: openjdk-8-jdk-headless (= >> 8u171-b11-1~bpo8+1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to >> correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > which is what I was getting before.
from my experience you need then to do apt-get install openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jdk-headless and they will for sure pull in some dependencies, which is why openjdk-8-jdk does not install automatically. just my 5cent