I have the same configuration and I can replicate the error with the package icedtea-gcjwebplugin, version "1.0-ubuntu6 (hardy-proposed)" This error is shown any time the subprocess post-installation script runs (~ for any other package installed/removed). It disappears removing the package or installing other versions.
I think this line of the error message shows the problem source: update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/midbrowser/plugins/libjavaplugin.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/midbrowser-javaplugin.so: No such file or directory Infact, the directory /usr/lib/midbrowser/ does not exist, and the same is true for the file "midbrowser-javaplugin.so" I don't know the correct path, nor the correct alternative to set. It seems there's a problem in the way the package has been made; I think anyone could see the same error installing the version "1.0-ubuntu6 (hardy-proposed)". If you need this package, you should try this workaround: downgrade icedtea-gcjwebplugin to version "1.0-ubuntu5 (hardy)". To downgrade, you have to: 1) select the package icedtea-gcjwebplugin from synaptic 2) package -> force version -> 1.0-ubuntu5 (hardy) 3) apply The update manager will probably notify the newer version again and again: if you update the package to the *ubuntu6*proposed version again, you will came back to the same, boring error. To avoid the update, until it will be fixed, you could do: - package -> lock version The package will appear as a "pinned" item. I hope some maintainer will fix this error soon. Good luck, Marco -- dpkg: error processing icedtea-gcjwebplugin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231748 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
