unable to open synaptic???

[lalitha niharika]

I tried to install google earth, java and some other softwares using bleedingedge.Then process was successful, I restarted my computer.I was unable to open google earth.I tried to open synaptic and got the msg to run "dpkg --configure -a" manually.I did it.Again now I am trying to open synaptic,getting this:(" E: The package sun-java6-jre needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report."what should I do???

[wojox]

Open your terminal and try:


sudo apt-get install --reinstall sun-java6-jre

[tommcd]

Problems like this are a good reason not to try to live on the bleeding edge, especially if you do not know how to troubleshoot problems like this.

If you stick to what is available in the default Ubuntu repos you will never have problems like this.

[lalitha niharika]

got like this:(

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: The package sun-java6-jre needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

[dino99]

sudo apt-get purge sun-java6-jre
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean

sudo dpkg-reconfigure synaptic

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

[lalitha niharika]

I just updated system and now synaptic is working!!:)