[SOLVED] When I first tried to uninstall or reinstall the sun-java6 packages nothing seemed to work to fix the <Broken Package> problem.
After uninstalling by purging sun-java6 packages where possible and removing them when not possible to purge, then reinstalling the sun- java6-jre from the command line. The broken packages being reported in the Adept Manager were finally fixed. I swear to you that I tried this a million times and for whatever reason it finally worked today. Here is the output from the reinstall after purging: -------------------- Output Begins -------------------- sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done sun-java6-jre is already the newest version. The following extra packages will be installed: sun-java6-bin The following packages will be upgraded: sun-java6-bin 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/29.4MB of archives. After this operation, 987kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package sun-java6-bin. (Reading database ... 430130 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sun-java6-bin 6-17-0ubuntu1.8.04 (using .../sun-java6-bin_6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04_i386.deb) ... sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted Unpacking replacement sun-java6-bin ... Setting up sun-java6-bin (6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/java-6-sun/security/java.policy ... Installing new version of config file /etc/java-6-sun/security/cacerts ... Setting up sun-java6-jre (6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04) ... Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-alchemy' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cache' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-ascii' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-binary' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-table' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdxml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-chem3d' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cif' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-daylight-smiles' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-dmol' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-output' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-log' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-genbank' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gulp' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-hin' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi-xml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-jcamp-dx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-macromodel-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-molfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rdfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rxnfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-sdfile' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-tgf' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mmcif' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mol2' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-graph' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-input' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-out' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-car' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-hessian' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-mdf' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-msi' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-binary' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-xml' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-pdb' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-shelx' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-vmd' Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-xyz' -------------------- Output Ends -------------------- ...I realize I need to fix the MIME types so they can be recognized by this java6 reinstall but I'm just too lazy to look up how to solve that right now. The main thing is that this bug was solved in my case by: Uninstalling or purging or removing the java6 packages a bazillion times until uninstalling it somehow finally works, then reinstall the java6-jre as listed above. Thanks for being patient with my lack of experience with Linux. I hope that this bug report can serve to help some one else with there broken sun-java6 packages. -- Errors repairing broken packages sun-java6-jre, sun-java6-bin, and sun-java6-plugin (while replacing java6-jre 6.17 with 6.20) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575790 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
