Re: OpenJDK 8 from jessie backports
On 2017-09-14, John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Georgi you made my day! That worked like a charm.
>
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> wrote:
>> 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
>>
In general, the command
apt-get -t jessie-backports install openjdk-8-jre-headless
should automatically resolve the dependencies for you.
--
Liam
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