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software-center package

fails to clarify deps problem on installation of openjdk-6-jre

Bug #659354 reported by Martin on 2010-10-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #655246: software-center does not provide enough information when a package fails to install. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

software-center mysteriously fails on installation of openjdk-6-jre complaining about some dependency problems while giving no real clue on their cause via details but the aforementioned package name.

In this case, tzdata-java is the culprit being too old against new tzdata update. aptitude's resolver is able to clarify this. Being clueless, I first removed sun-java6-jre... -- precise error messages are a good thing!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 12 19:04:10 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

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Martin (wortheld) wrote on 2010-10-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2011-09-08:

Thanks for reporting this bug, and sorry for the delay in responding.

This precise bug doesn't seem to exist any more: openjdk-6-jre 6b23~pre8-1ubuntu1 installs fine for me. Therefore I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug 655246, about poor feedback when package installations fail in general. If this particular package still doesn't install for you, please unmark the duplicate.