Hi Scott On Tuesday 18 July 2006 05:31, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Java Guys, > > I'm having some trouble getting the Debs for Sun's Java in the > Non-Free section installed. I wanted to check with you guys for a > solution, and if I'm not messing something up then I will file a bug > report. > > I think there may be a circular dependency with the sun-java5-bin > Debian package and the sun-java5-jre Debian Package. > The circular dependency is a known issue. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=368108.
> Here is the message I get from dpkg when I try to install the > sun-java5-bin package. (It does prompt me to accept the license, but > I'm not sure if it completes the installation.) > > Error Message > > darthvadersbox:/home/darthvader/debs# dpkg -i > Selecting previously deselected package > sun-java5-bin. <snip dpkg output> > Here is the message I get when I try to install the sun-java5-jre > package. > > darthvadersbox:/home/darthvader/debs# dpkg -i > sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb dpkg: error processing > sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb (--install): cannot access archive: No > such file or directory > Errors were encountered while processing: > sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb doesn't exist, sun-java5-jre is architecture all, you meant sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_all.deb > darthvadersbox:/home/darthvader/debs# dpkg -i > sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package > sun-java5-jre. <snip dpkg install; dpkg errors about unconfigured sun-java5-bin> > > Can I fix this by overriding the dependecy checks and forcing the > install? Force-depends is an (un-necessarily) big hammer. Using dpkg -i --force-depends here will probably work, but there are better solutions. i. In the state that you ended up in, dpkg --configure --pending will configure both packages. ii. Install both packages with the same command eg dpkg -i sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-1_all.deb sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-07-1_i386.deb This should work even with one or both packages partially installed. I'm not sure why you're installing with dpkg, but in general I recommend using apt-get or aptitude or another package manager as a front end to dpkg. They should handle dependencies for you. HTH Andrew V.
