java installer crashes whatever I will do :S

[Capdoc]

I tried to install java but it will crash every time after that licence-thingy-thingy text :D

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: aliprosessi pre-installation script palautti virhetilakoodin 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: sun-java5-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-jre.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: sun-java5
Title: package sun-java5-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java5-jre.list] failed to install/upgrade: aliprosessi pre-installation script palautti virhetilakoodin 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Florian Diesch (diesch)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Did you accept the license?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Byron (byron-watkins)]

I have the same problem... The license approval request locked up my terminal and I finally had to close the terminal and kill the process from another terminal. Now dpkg is in a precarious state such that it will neither install nor remove the sun-java5-jre package. I have re-started several times and tried every reasonable aptitude command. Can someone at least tell me how to re-stabilize my ubuntu installation?

[Byron (byron-watkins)]

We can recover control of everything and install the sun-java5-jre package by using the graphical package manager: System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager. Un-mark the sun-java5-jre package and apply changes. Check the box at the bottom of the license agreement and install the package.