On Monday 04 July 2016 14:50:21 Giovanni Gigante wrote: > Hello, > I have a wheezy installation (itself upgraded from previous versions) > that I now want to upgrade to jessie. > I was following the instructions for the preparation to the upgrade to > jessie, and I got this: > > # dpkg --audit > The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the > database, they need to be reinstalled: > java-gcj-compat Java runtime environment using GIJ > > However, reinstalling this package seems impossible, as it apparently > does not exist anymore: > > # apt-get install --reinstall java-gcj-compat > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reinstallation of java-gcj-compat is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > There are other strange things. For example, gcj-jre is not installed on > this system (?), but if I try to install it, I get: > > # apt-get install gcj-jre > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > gcj-jre : Depends: gcj-jre-headless (>= 4:4.7.2-1) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > Apart from this the systems seem up to date. I have tried apt-get clean, > apt-get dist-upgrade and aptitude, and none of them complain. > I have no idea what to do next, in order to have a trouble-free system > that I can safely upgrade to jessie. Suggestions?
Have you tried simply uninstalling them? You are supposed to do something with Java on Wheezy to go from, I think, jdk6 to jdk7, and there has been a problem with jre for some time. I rather think that you need the Oracle repositories or something... I didn't take the details in because I have upgraded everybody to Jessie. You can always put back anything you want after the upgrade. Lisi
