Errors Installing icedtea-netx

[Aere Greenway]

In attempting to install icedtea-netx on Ubuntu 14.10, I get the following errors:

Setting up icedtea-netx:i386 (1.5.1-1ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/itweb-settings because link group itweb-settings is broken
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz with a link
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/itweb-settings because link group itweb-settings is broken
update-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz with a link
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/javaws doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing package icedtea-netx:i386 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea-7-plugin:i386:
 icedtea-7-plugin:i386 depends on icedtea-netx (= 1.5.1-1ubuntu1); however:
  Package icedtea-netx:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package icedtea-7-plugin:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea-plugin:
 icedtea-plugin depends on icedtea-7-plugin; however:
  Package icedtea-7-plugin:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package icedtea-plugin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                    Errors were encountered while processing:
 icedtea-netx:i386
 icedtea-7-plugin:i386
 icedtea-plugin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Similar problems occur trying to install icedtea-plugin.

1. This is release 14.10, and the error has been observed in Lubuntu, and ubuntuMate. I haven't tried other Ubuntu variants.

2. The version of the package being installed is: icedtea-netx:i386 (1.5.1-1ubuntu1)

3. I expected it to install (using OpenJava 7) as it has on Ubuntu 14.04

4. It appears to have installed icedtea-plugin, yet every time I try to install something else, it produces error status (above), though it seems to actually install what I requested.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: icedtea-netx 1.5.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 27 11:13:40 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-27 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu MATE 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - i386 (20141023)
SourcePackage: icedtea-web
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Aere Greenway (aere)]

In item #4 of the bug report, I said "icedtea-plugin", but I intended to say "icedtea-netx".

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.