icedtea-gcjwebplugin broken dependency on icedtea6-plugin

[Niall Creech]

Binary package hint: icedtea-gcjwebplugin

icedtea-gcjwebplugin wont install due to broken dependency on icedtea6-plugin, even if this is already installed. possibly a circular dependency? icedtea-gcjwebplugin depends on icedtea6-plugin but icedtea6-plugin conflicts with and replaces icedtea-gcjwebplugin

amd64, synced to intrepid main repository

 apt-get install icedtea-gcjwebplugin
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  icedtea-gcjwebplugin: Depends: icedtea6-plugin but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

icedtea-gcjwebplugin 1.0-1ubuntu4
icedtea6-plugin 6b12-0ubuntu1

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

yes, should be a versioned conflict. for now, please just remove the icedtea-gcjwebplugin package

[Pete Stucke (pstucke)]

Matthias, are we stuck without Java support in Firefox until a fix comes out, or do you have an alternative? Thanks!

[Jarl (jarl-dk)]

Why is this marked fixed, release? I just updated and I still cannot install icedtea-gjcjwebplugin.

[Svein Tore (sveint)]

Indeed, I get the same problem so it's not fixed yet.

[Charles P. Collins IV (thought-engineer)]

This problem affects me as well, no open solution for Java web applets. No open solution for using the "Gallery2 web upload" applet feature for my sites. Also on amd64 main repositories.

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

Together with bug #255681 This means that neither of the options given by the Firefox plugin finder on amd64 work. A work around (installing cacao-oj6-plugin) is discussed in bug #255681 however.

[Doug (worrall-doug)]

Same here, Interpid wont take icetea-gcjwebplugin, dependency problems.

[starchild7778 (starchild7778)]

I have this same issue using Ubuntu 9.10 (32bit). I have the same broken dependency issue when trying to install the icedtea plugin or any openjdk component.

[Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex)]

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the
report. The bug is still marked as "In Progress" in later versions of Ubuntu.