Unable to reinstall/remove sun-j2sdk1.5.0

[nanaban]

I followed the instructures here (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java15) to install java-ubuntu and sun-j2sdk1.5.0, but installation of j2sdk gave me an error.

I decided to remove everything but apt-get won't let me remove j2sdk.


Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
sun-j2sdk1.5.0
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 140MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 87693 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/bin/idlj': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sun-j2sdk1.5.0
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have also tried the following:

reinstall
remove
remove completely
clean the cache


Any suggestion on what to do?

[scoon]

I followed the instructures here (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java15) to install java-ubuntu and sun-j2sdk1.5.0, but installation of j2sdk gave me an error.

I decided to remove everything but apt-get won't let me remove j2sdk.



I have also tried the following:

reinstall
remove
remove completely
clean the cache


Any suggestion on what to do?


Hey there,

What was the error that you got when you tried to install it the first time ?

scoon

[piedamaro]

If that file is missing accidentaly, you can fix it like this:
sudo touch /usr/bin/idlj

then apt should be happy.

[nanaban]

If that file is missing accidentaly, you can fix it like this:
sudo touch /usr/bin/idlj

then apt should be happy.

I tried that, but it recursively bragged for idlj, apt, jar, idlj, apt .....

[nanaban]

solved! Had to remove a mozilla plugin and reinstall.
Thanks.

[flashdog]

Hello,
I have same problem. I try

sudo touch /usr/bin/idlj /usr/bin/apt /usr/bin/jar /usr/bin/jdb /usr/bin/jps /usr/bin/serialver /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/jmap /usr/bin/ktab /usr/bin/orbd /usr/bin/rmic /usr/bin/rmid /usr/bin/native2ascii /usr/bin/extcheck /usr/bin/keytool /usr/bin/javac /usr/bin/javah /usr/bin/javap /usr/bin/jinfo /usr/bin/jstat /usr/bin/kinit /usr/bin/klist /usr/bin/unpack200 /usr/bin/appletviewer /usr/bin/java-rmi.cgi /usr/bin/ControlPanel /usr/bin/jstack /usr/bin/jstatd /usr/bin/tnameserv /usr/bin/servertool /usr/bin/jarsigner /usr/bin/pack200 /usr/bin/HtmlConverter /usr/bin/jsadebugd /usr/bin/javadoc /usr/bin/rmiregistry /usr/bin/policytool /usr/bin/jconsole /usr/bin/jconsole


but,


dpkg -r sun-j2sdk1.5.0 (Reading database ... 66088 files and directories currently installed.) Removing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 ... rm: cannot remove `/usr/bin/jconsole': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing sun-j2sdk1.5.0 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
sun-j2sdk1.5.0



Can anyone help me?

[flashdog]

I find solve:
dpkg -i --force-all /var/cache/apt/sun-j2sdk1.5.0_01-1_i386.deb

For Firefox:
ln -s /usr/lib/sun-j2sdk1.5.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins