Public bug reported:
An installation of libreoffice ends unsuccessfully, complaining about
icedtea-netx being not installable.
More precisely:
# apt install icedtea-netx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
icedtea-netx is already the newest version (1.6.2-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up icedtea-netx:amd64 (1.6.2-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws for javaws not registered; not
setting
dpkg: error processing package icedtea-netx:amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message
indicates its a followu
p error from a previous failure.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration
of icedtea-8-plugin:amd64:
icedtea-8-plugin:amd64 depends on icedtea-netx (= 1.6.2-1ubuntu1); however:
Package icedtea-netx:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package icedtea-8-plugin:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-java-plugin:
default-java-plugin depends on icedtea-8-plugin; however:
Package icedtea-8-plugin:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package default-java-plugin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
icedtea-netx:amd64
icedtea-8-plugin:amd64
default-java-plugin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Seemingly, icedtea-netx tried to activate JDK7 even though JDK7 was not
installed (see icedtea-netx.postinst.in in the source package).
The following work-around resolves the problem:
# cd /usr/lib/jvm && ln -s java-8-openjdk-amd64 java-7-openjdk-amd64
# apt-get install -f
** Affects: icedtea-web (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
icedtea-netx version 1.6.2-1ubuntu1 is not installable on xenial
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