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Aptitude stuck on sun-java5-bin



I have managed to get myself in a bit of a bind regarding packages.
Aptitude is reporting an error regarding an apparent half-finished
upgrade to sun-java5-bin, and this has caused all things to stop.
Unfortunately I have not found a way to resolve or work around this.
Here is what has been coming back from any aptitude commands:


Preparing to replace sun-java5-bin 1.5.0-14-2 (using .../sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-14-2_i386.deb) ...
sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted
Unpacking replacement sun-java5-bin ...
/usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png is not a directory
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png is not a directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-14-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted
/usr/share/icons/sun-java5.png is not a directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-14-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't know why it would expect that sun-java5.png would be a
directory, but this has apparently led to some strange confusions.  I
have removed the sun-java5-bin debfile from cache just in case something
may change with a new download, but it still resulted in the same
complaints.  I have also tried uninstalling the package, but it
insists it must install it before removing it, and so that won't work
either.  I am not quite sure how to proceed here, and I am sure I am
overlooking the obvious response simply because I am still a bit of a
newb with apt.

Any ideas of what I may be able to do to get this resolved?  Many thanks
in advance,

Patrick


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