On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 03:47:10PM -0600, John Heim wrote: > > > I keep getting an error message when I try to install j2re1.4. It says it > it failed to preconfigure with exit status 10 (see below). I am following > the instructions at > http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html. If it makes you feel any better, I have trouble apt-get'ing the package, following the instructions sent out earlier on this list.
That is, I set sources.list to deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://ftp.tux.org sarge/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.tux.org_java_debian_dists_sarge_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) # apt-show-versions -a j2re1.4 j2re1.4 1.4.1-6 install ok installed No stable version No testing version No unstable version j2re1.4 1.4.1-6 unknown j2re1.4/unknown uptodate 1.4.1-6 Hmm, despite this, it looks as if dist-upgrade fails but install may work: # apt-get -d dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: j2re1.4 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. # apt-get -d install j2re1.4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho The following packages will be REMOVED: j2se-common The following packages will be upgraded: j2re1.4 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 22.5MB of archives. After unpacking 8155kB of additional disk space will be used. See bug at http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=301058&group_id=30289&atid=410681 Any clues would be great. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
