dear ubuntu: "fuck" and "you"

[rone]

# apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-7-jre: Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1) but it is not going to
  be installed
E: Broken packages
# apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-7-jre-headless: Depends: openjdk-7-jre-lib (>= 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1) but it is not going
  to be installed
E: Broken packages
# apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-lib
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-7-jre-lib: Depends: openjdk-7-jre-headless (>= 7b89~pre1) but it is not going to be
  installed
E: Broken packages

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Try aptitude, and/or stick 'em all on one line?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

aptitude didn't do much except install some shared mime info package.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Plan B: fuck Java. Fuck it right in the ear.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

My comment below notwithstanding, Das Weasel Kaiser has the right of it.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

Me too. I'm not a programmer, but for a while, I thought I should be. And years ago, I thought, "I guess I should try to learn Java, because that's going to be a Big Thing and it would be a useful skillset." But the damn thing would never install right, so I couldn't even practice, so I gave up.

But, of course, there's still been tons of Java apps written by other people. NONE of which work as advertised. And it wasn't just me; at one internet company I worked for, they had this dumb Java email management program called "Egain" that they forced us to use for a while, and neither the IT department *nor the Egain people* could get the damned thing to work properly. We went back to using Kana.

Even today, every couple weeks I get a pop-up telling me I need to update Java. It's been nagging me for a year now, but every time I click the "go ahead and update, see if I care" button, it wastes a bunch of time downloading crap and then says "install failed".

Fucking Java.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Java seems to have found niches as one of many languages for back-end server code, and as the main language for apps and some system programming on Android. On the personal-computer desktop, it's always had the problem that it requires this runtime from Sun/Oracle that is nontrivial to deal with, and it was never able to be as seamlessly cross-platform as its creators intended.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I ended up upgrading the box from 10.04 to 12.04, which has OpenJDK 7 standard.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Since when won't apt install dependencies?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That's exactly my reaction. I suspect that the repository is buggered, but all i can find is an extant bug describing this very problem that was submitted in September 2011 and has not been updated since.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

You would think there would be a "--install-now-mofo" option.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

So want to plus/like/w-evs this.

[tinellaq.livejournal.com]

Huh. That does seem like a repo issue - ie, once A required B, now B requires A, and your repo is out of sync on one and not the other.

If you can get hold of the .deb, you should be able to do "dpkg -i --force-all" to get it actually installed. But, annoying hassle.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Tried that; didn't work. allbery determined that the packages were, indeed, built by a cretin.

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> openjdk-7-jdk: Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed
> Conflicts: openjdk-7-jre-headless (< 7b89~pre1-0) but 7~b117~pre1-0lucid1 is to be installed

These packages were built by someone who doesn't know what they're doing.
They conflict with the packages they depend on. Someone didn't realize
that 7~b117 < 7b89.