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[Gerv <gerv@xxxxxxxx>]

How could the problem be with the mirror?

As far as I understand it, this is what happens:

- Someone has a fully-updated Ubuntu but no Java installed
- This means they have tzdata-2008g (I think it's g)
- They try and install Java using apt-get
- openjdk-jre-6-headless has an "=" dependency on tzdata-2008b
- openjdk-jre-6-headless refuses to install due to a version mismatch
- and apt-get won't or can't downgrade the tzdata package to fix it

Result: you have to downgrade manually.

I guess the only reason it could be a mirror issue is if the problem had
actually been fixed but the mirror didn't have an updated version of
openjdk-jre-6-headless. I think that's highly unlikely because the
several people reporting the problem will be using different mirrors.
And I get updates to my machine all the time, so it's not like the
mirror is dead.

Gerv

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openjdk-6-jre is uninstalable as of Thu Aug  7 14:16:14 UTC 2008
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255738
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Status in “openjdk-6” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: openjdk-6-jre

Helping a user on irc ( #ubuntu channel) he wants to install openjdk-6-jre it fails with the openjdk-6-jre-headless dependencie and packages fals down the chain as follows (from a pastebin)

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre-headless
[sudo] password for danya: 
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openjdk-6-jre-headless: Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
danya@Do0oDz:~$ sudo apt-get install tzdata-java
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  tzdata-java: Depends: tzdata (= 2008b-1ubuntu1) but 2008e-1ubuntu0.8.04 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


He has updates enabled the package should not be broken