Installation failure for openjdk-9 on 16.04 ("trying to overwrite jawt_md.h")

[Simos Xenitellis ]

When installing "openjdk-9-jdk" on Ubuntu 16.04, the installation fails:

# apt install openjdk-9-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  openjdk-9-demo openjdk-9-source visualvm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openjdk-9-jdk
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
127 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/16.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 58.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 28839 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking openjdk-9-jdk:amd64 (9~b114-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h', which is also in package openjdk-9-jdk-headless:amd64 9~b114-0ubuntu1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It appears to be a packaging issue; both openjdk-9-jdk and openjdk-9-jdk-headless provide the same file /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h

As a result, it is not possible to install "openjdk-9-jdk" on Ubuntu 16.04.

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

The failure is reproducible. For example,

$ lxc launch ubuntu:x mytest
$ lxc exec mytest -- /bin/bash
# apt update
# apt upgrade
# apt install openjdk-9-jdk
(above error occurs).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Bump...

Reported at https://askubuntu.com/questions/769467/can-not-install-openjdk-9-jdk-because-it-tries-to-overwrite-file-aready-includ, too.

Still a problem on the latest Ubuntu machines (fully patched):

   $ lsb_release -a
   No LSB modules are available.
   Distributor ID: Ubuntu
   Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
   Release: 16.04
   Codename: xenial

And:

   $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-9-jdk
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   Suggested packages:
     openjdk-9-demo openjdk-9-source visualvm
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
     openjdk-9-jdk
   0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
   12 not fully installed or removed.
   Need to get 0 B/16.6 kB of archives.
   After this operation, 58.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
   (Reading database ... 198589 files and directories currently installed.)
   Preparing to unpack .../openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
   Unpacking openjdk-9-jdk:amd64 (9~b114-0ubuntu1) ...
   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
    trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/include/linux/jawt_md.h', which is also in package openjdk-9-jdk-headless:amd64 9~b114-0ubuntu1
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-9-jdk_9~b114-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)