during installation, the installation jus hangs when it gets to the java doc part, i left my pc on the whole night thinking maybe its a really long process but no luck, i just had to restart my pc

Bug #317371 reported by v1kt4r
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Bug Description

i have been tryin to install java on ubuntu 8.10 but it jus keeps hanging mid way the installation and after that my synaptic manager is screwed and now everytime i try to install anything with synaptic the java installation pops up and still goes ahead to hang, help
thanks

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 unzip 5.52-11ubuntu1
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: sun-java6-doc 6-10-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: sun-java6
Title: package sun-java6-doc 6-10-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

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v1kt4r (v1kt4r) wrote :
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James Stansell (jamesstansell) wrote :

From the logfile:

Setting up sun-java6-doc (6-10-0ubuntu2) ...
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the
 ...

(we get lots of these)

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