apt 0.9.15.4ubuntu4 uninstalls ppa:webupd8team/java oracle-java[78]-installer

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

IMO, this is a bug in the webup8 packages: they should not provide or conflict against sun-java6-jdk. Especially not the java7 and java8 installers.

I just sent an email to the maintainer of the webupd8 packages, asking for him to weigh in. While I agree that removing the sun-java6-jdk Provide from the webupd8 installers would indeed resolve the issue, I'm not familiar enough to know what the possible downside might be of doing so.

This bug effects me as well, there is a useful work around provided by "Andy S" on ask ubuntu. http://askubuntu.com/questions/443370/oracle-java8-installer-results-in-apt-removal?noredirect=1#comment580460_443370

The workaround was provided by AvatarKava not Andy S.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/pool/main/o/oracle-java8-installer/oracle-java8-installer_8u0-1~webupd8~5_all.deb
You can download this file or the one specified here
http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
Or
http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
for 32bit.

Then
sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=apt oracle-java8-installer_8u0-1~webupd8~5_all.deb

Yet after installing it through the workaround, no more software package can be installed until the JDK8 is removed.

I ended up installing the old version of apt downloaded from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/0.9.15.4ubuntu3/+build/5872859
then locked the version using the synaptic package manager. I guess I just stick with this version until the problem's solved.

The ppa packages are wrong.

Yeah, me too. Ubuntu 14.04 x64.webupd8team oracle java 8 jdk failed. Synaptic/apt unistalled webupd8team oracle8 and installed openjdk7.
Then, I uninstanlled openjdk. When trying to reinstall webupd8team oracle8, my postgresql installation has gone and apt was unistalled.

It's not the ppa. There were no sun-java packages from Ubuntu, since Oracle changes the license. So the package name on Ubuntu's side is simpley wrong. It comes with OpenJDK which doesn't came from Oracle.

You are right that the breaks do not cover openjdk-6-jdk yet. This needs to be added. The other breaks are correct as well though, because the sun JDKs ship an apt binary as well.

It turns out that openjdk-6-jdk (>= 6b24-1.11-0ubuntu1) is not affected, that is precise or newer. So there seems to be no need to add breaks for that as well.

Please do not play around with the bug status. There's nothing incomplete about this bug.

* The packages from the PPA *wrongly* claim to be sun-java6-jdk while being JDK 7 or 8.
* APT *correctly* breaks sun-java5-jdk and sun-java6-jdk, because installing those together would not work, because all three packages provide an APT binary.

There's nothing we can do here. Please contact the PPA provider and ask them to fix their packages.

Please do not reopen the bug or comment on it. Thank you.

Where is sun-java6-jdk in the ubuntu repo (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=sun-java6&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all) ? Why apt package need to break it if there is no such package in the repo? Or I didn' t find its existence in the official repo?

Cmon guys this really needs to be fixed. I manage to install java6 with the "manual" method but now I cannot install anything else because I have "broken dependencies".

Yes, it really has to be fixed.. by the people maintaining the third party repository that has the actual bug in it. Ubuntu's core packages can't put in workarounds for bugs in other repositories.

Anyone can open a bug ticket for the webupd8 team?

Sorry for one more comment, Julian...

OK folks, we have been given an answer and have been asked not to post further here. This is not a problem with anything Canonical can control.

I've contacted the package manager at webupd8.org. If I get any info or a resolution, I will post it on Ubuntu Forums.

So let's do as Julian asked and stop commenting here.

Thanks to all and thanks to Julian for pointing us in the right direction..

I agree with julian about the analysis. But I also think by providing a versionized break/replaces we can make the experiences for the jdk users smoother. The attached patch should ensure we replace the deprectated apt while still keeping the java8 packages on the system (which is ok, it does not contain a apt binary anymore).

OK everyone, we added a work-around to ignore Provides: sun-java6-jdk. While those are still wrong, this should smoothen the upgrade. Michael will add the patches to trusty soon.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commit;h=5f9dd175b765fe3839f029f39bb42e6136a2326c

Thanks Julian, I cherry-picked the fix and uploaded the packages to trusty.

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.9.15.4ubuntu5

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apt (0.9.15.4ubuntu5) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Julian Andres Klode ]
  * Version the Breaks/Replaces for sun-java{5,6}-jdk
    (LP: #1302736)
  * Add versioned openjdk-6-jdk breaks
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 07 Apr 2014 11:40:40 +0200