broken files and apt get locked

[Wulfy]

uriah heep wrote:
> the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in konsole
>
>
> sudo dpkg –configure -a
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> gives below result
>
>
> [sudo] password for uriah:
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sunwderby:
>
> sunwderby depends on sun-java5-jre; however:
>
> Package sun-java5-jre is not installed.
>
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Do you have a Java runtime installed?  That seems to be what is missing 
according to the error messages.  And it should be the java5 not the 
java6 stuff...

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