I would appreciate a suggestion for appropriate commands in deb or dpkg that might help me narrow down the specific cause or fix the broken cache. I'm reluctant to use the file system to remove the file '/etc/java-8-openjdk/net.properties' manually, but that will probably my next step.
==== ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/net.properties', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u191-b12-2ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) === -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1806265 Title: package openjdk-8-jre-headless 8u181-b13-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite shared '/etc/java-8-openjdk/security/java.security', which is different from other instances of package openjdk-8-jre-headless:amd64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openjdk-8/+bug/1806265/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
