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[Vojtěch Trefný <vojtech.trefny@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 231748 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231748

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 231748
   dpkg: error processing icedtea-gcjwebplugin

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Installing icedtea-gcjwebplugin fails with dpkg error code 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232324
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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Here's the error output in the console. This was from an update.  The original installation of ubuntu-restricted-extras, which brought this in, worked fine.
I think I was using a java applet during the upgrade. Package version is 2:0.96.1-1ubuntu1 (hardy) and this is on an hardy current with proposed updates.

Setting up icedtea-gcjwebplugin (1.0-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/iceape/plugins/libjavaplugin.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/iceape-javaplugin.so: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing icedtea-gcjwebplugin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 icedtea-gcjwebplugin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up icedtea-gcjwebplugin (1.0-0ubuntu6) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/lib/iceape/plugins/libjavaplugin.so.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/iceape-javaplugin.so: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing icedtea-gcjwebplugin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2