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Fluffy
Asked: 2012-05-06 04:57:13 +0800 CST

How to remove a half-installed package? (Sun JDK - Java)

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I've tried installing Sun JDK from sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eugenesan/java, it failed with the following: 

Downloading...
--2012-05-05 15:50:09--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u3-b04/jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)... 80.239.230.162
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|80.239.230.162|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u3-b04/jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz [following]
--2012-05-05 15:50:09--  https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u3-b04/jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)... 2.17.254.174
Connecting to edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|2.17.254.174|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://download.oracle.com/errors/download-fail-1505220.html [following]
--2012-05-05 15:50:09--  http://download.oracle.com/errors/download-fail-1505220.html
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|80.239.230.162|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5307 (5.2K) [text/html]
Saving to: `./jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz'

     0K .....                                                 100% 20.5M=0s

2012-05-05 15:50:09 (20.5 MB/s) - `./jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz' saved [5307/5307]

Download done.
sha256sum mismatch jdk-7u3-linux-x64.tar.gz
Oracle JDK 7 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oracle-java7-installer

So apparently it's trying to fetch a bad URL. I've installed Java manually, but now the package is stuck as a half-installed and every time I apt-get install anything, the error appears again.

apt-get install -f shows "1 not fully installed or removed." package and fails with the same error. I've tried dpkg -P oracle-java7-installer, but it fails as well.

How to remove this half-installed package?

ppa dpkg apt java 12.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Awww yeahh.. I've been able to finally remove after finding this post the following way: sudo find /var/lib/dpkg -exec grep -l "oracle-java7-installer" {} \; showed a bunch of files, I've added exit 0 to first line by typing sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java7-installer.prerm, saved file and closed gedit. Finally, after I was back on command line, typed sudo dpkg -P oracle-java7-installer and it worked.

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  2. sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java7-installer*

    sudo apt-get purge oracle-java7-installer*

    sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/java

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

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  3. Use 'Synaptic Package Manager' to remove OR fix broken packages

    To download and install 'Synaptic Package Manager' type the following command in the terminal >>

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install synaptic
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