Thanks Georgi you made my day! That worked like a charm.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Georgi Naplatanov <go...@oles.biz> wrote:
> On 09/14/2017 03:45 PM, John Naggets wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did the mistake of running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Debian 8
>> machine which uses Debian backports in oder to have the OpenJDK 8
>> package. Now I am stuck by with the OpenJDK 7 from the Debian repo and
>> if I try to install OpenJDK 8 again I get the following error:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless
>> 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:
>> openjdk-8-jre-headless : Breaks: ca-certificates-java (< 20160321~)
>> but 20140324 is to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea how I can get OpenJDK 8 from backports back?
>
> Hi John,
>
> I had the same problem with Jessie and OpenJdk-8.
>
> You have to install ca-certificates-java from backports too.
>
> HTH
>
> Kind regards
> Georgi
>
