(Solved) Apt seems to have gotten jammed somehow
dpkg: error processing package ca-certificates-java (--configure):
installed ca-certificates-java package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up libwxbase3.2-1:amd64 (3.2.2+dfsg-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64:
openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 depends on ca-certificates-java (>= 20190405~); however:
Package ca-certificates-java is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libwxgtk3.2-1:amd64 (3.2.2+dfsg-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openjdk-17-jre:amd64:
openjdk-17-jre:amd64 depends on openjdk-17-jre-headless (= 17.0.8+7-1~deb12u1); however:
Package openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-jre:
default-jre depends on openjdk-17-jre; however:
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package default-jre (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of minecraft-launcher:
minecraft-launcher depends on default-jre; however:
Package default-jre is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package minecraft-launcher (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up filezilla (3.63.0-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geogebra:
geogebra depends on default-jre | java7-runtime | java8-runtime | java9-runtime | java10-runtime | java11-runtime; however:
Package default-jre is not configured yet.
Package java7-runtime is not installed.
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java7-runtime is not configured yet.
Package default-jre which provides java7-runtime is not configured yet.
Package java8-runtime is not installed.
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java8-runtime is not configured yet.
Package default-jre which provides java8-runtime is not configured yet.
Package java9-runtime is not installed.
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java9-runtime is not configured yet.
Package default-jre which provides java9-runtime is not configured yet.
Package java10-runtime is not installed.
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java10-runtime is not configured yet.
Package default-jre which provides java10-runtime is not configured yet.
Package java11-runtime is not installed.
Package openjdk-17-jre:amd64 which provides java11-runtime is not configured yet.
Package default-jre which provides java11-runtime is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package geogebra (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
ca-certificates-java
openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64
openjdk-17-jre:amd64
default-jre
minecraft-launcher
geogebra
What must I do to unjam things?
I have tried many suggestions from various websites but they don’t work because it looks like there is some sort of circular dependency going on here.
Your root problem is:
dpkg: error processing package ca-certificates-java (--configure): installed ca-certificates-java package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1It can’t finish installing
ca-certificates-javabecause the script that is supposed to set it up isn’t working. So it also can’t finish installing anything that depends on it, since it doesn’t want to run their scripts untilca-certificates-javais installed properly.Maybe uninstall
ca-certificates-javaand what depends on it, and then reinstall it alone, and see if you can get a message about why exactly its script is failing?Thanks for all your suggestions! I uninstalled ca-certificates-java and minecraft-launcher , and when I did that the others were removed also. then I re-installed the Minecraft.deb that I had downloaded from Mojang’s site and now Minecraft is working. Next, I will investigate Geogebra.
After an install - Geogeba now works too.
Actually I think this might be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023748 and you might be able to get around it by having an older Java installed or set as the main one when installing the CA certificates package.
I always forget after fixing these dpkg errors, but it makes me want to try and add better error handling to apt. These messages are utterly confusing, and if apt can solve for an installable set of packages we should be able to make it analyze the root of a failure. Do any other package managers do this well?
