Re: Error: "The package jre needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it."


s. keeling wrote:
bhartman33@xxxxxxxxx <bhartman33@xxxxxxxxx>:

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

You might start by deleting jre from your system: I have no idea what Ubuntu
calls the recent versions of that, but Sun calls it "j2se" this week.

Thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately, I can't uninstall anything
(at least, not with apt-get) at this point. Any time I run apt-get, I
get the message I mentioned. I tried delteting the files I installed,

Try using dpkg instead. "dpkg -l | grep j2se" will show what their
names are (assuming "j2se" is correct).

Then "dpkg -r $PKG" (where $PKG is the name of the package to be
removed).

Afterward, "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", and be careful about
whether you say "Yes" or not.

Thanks for your help. :) Unfortunately, I didn't see this until this
morning, and I broke down and re-installed last night.

I've got another question, but I'll start another thread for that one.
:)



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