package sun-java6-doc 6-03-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Lars Noodén]

Trying to use Eclipse IDE with Java.

# apt-get install eclipse-jdt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
eclipse-jdt is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  sun-java6-demo: Depends: sun-java6-jre (= 6-03-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: sun-java6-jdk (= 6-03-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 10 08:45:54 2007
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5ubuntu3
 unzip 5.52-10ubuntu1
 gcc-4.2-base 4.2.1-5ubuntu3
 libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: sun-java6-doc 6-03-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: sun-java6
Title: package sun-java6-doc 6-03-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

from the attached log:

Setting up sun-java6-doc (6-03-0ubuntu2) ...

This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the

JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the

archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).

Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied

to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]

This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the

JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the

archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).

Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied

to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]

This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the

JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the

archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).

Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied

to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]

This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the

JDK documentation. You will need to go download one of the

archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).

Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download. The file should be owned by root.root and be copied

to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort] no

Abort installation of JDK documentation

dpkg: error processing sun-java6-doc (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Lars Noodén (larsnooden)]

Yes, I saw that message. However, the point of a package manager is to automatically install jdk-6-doc.zip and jdk-6-doc-ja.zip. Neither are installed manually hence the bug report.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

cannot be fixed due to the license of the documentation

[Gimfred (bhuxham)]

It can be installed (manually -- Lars and Matt, you probably know but it took me awhile to figure it out. Hope this helps someone)

Copy the archive file over to /tmp and chown. Somewhere I got the idea the file should be expanded and of course that didn't work...

as such...

$ cp /the_folder(s)_you_downloaded_to/jdk-6-doc.zip /tmp
$ sudo chown root:root /tmp/jdk-6-doc

Good luck

[José Roberto (tickbrown)]

per_automatik escreveu:
> ** Also affects: synaptic
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
Thanks for report the problem to me!

[Vivek Cherian (vivekvc)]

You are welcome Jose.