Re: OpenJDK 8 from jessie backports

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 09/14/2017 03:45 PM, John Naggets wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I did the mistake of running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Debian 8
> machine which uses Debian backports in oder to have the OpenJDK 8
> package. Now I am stuck by with the OpenJDK 7 from the Debian repo and
> if I try to install OpenJDK 8 again I get the following error:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless
> 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:
>  openjdk-8-jre-headless : Breaks: ca-certificates-java (< 20160321~)
> but 20140324 is to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how I can get OpenJDK 8 from backports back?

Hi John,

I had the same problem with Jessie and OpenJdk-8.

You have to install ca-certificates-java from backports too.

HTH

Kind regards
Georgi