Re: wheezy packages problems
On Monday 04 July 2016 14:50:21 Giovanni Gigante wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a wheezy installation (itself upgraded from previous versions)
> that I now want to upgrade to jessie.
> I was following the instructions for the preparation to the upgrade to
> jessie, and I got this:
>
> # dpkg --audit
> The following packages are missing the md5sums control file in the
> database, they need to be reinstalled:
> java-gcj-compat Java runtime environment using GIJ
>
> However, reinstalling this package seems impossible, as it apparently
> does not exist anymore:
>
> # apt-get install --reinstall java-gcj-compat
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Reinstallation of java-gcj-compat is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> There are other strange things. For example, gcj-jre is not installed on
> this system (?), but if I try to install it, I get:
>
> # apt-get install gcj-jre
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gcj-jre : Depends: gcj-jre-headless (>= 4:4.7.2-1) but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> Apart from this the systems seem up to date. I have tried apt-get clean,
> apt-get dist-upgrade and aptitude, and none of them complain.
> I have no idea what to do next, in order to have a trouble-free system
> that I can safely upgrade to jessie. Suggestions?
Have you tried simply uninstalling them?
You are supposed to do something with Java on Wheezy to go from, I think, jdk6
to jdk7, and there has been a problem with jre for some time. I rather think
that you need the Oracle repositories or something... I didn't take the
details in because I have upgraded everybody to Jessie.
You can always put back anything you want after the upgrade.
Lisi
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