broken files and apt get locked

[uriah heep]

In konsole I invoked sudo aptitude -f install

I got

 sudo] password for uriah:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Initializing package states... Done

Writing extended state information... Done

Building tag database... Done

The following packages are BROKEN:

glassfish-bin imq sunwderby

The following packages have been kept back:

glassfish sun-java5-bin

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

sunwderby: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable

glassfish-bin: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable

imq: Depends: sun-java5-jre but it is not installable

Resolving dependencies...

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the glassfish package. This might mean
you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the sun-java5-bin package. This might
mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)

The following actions will resolve these dependencies:


 Install the following packages:

sun-java5-jre [1.5.0-13-0ubuntu1 (gutsy)]


 Score is 41


 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] y

The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:

sun-java5-jre

The following packages have been kept back:

glassfish sun-java5-bin

The following NEW packages will be installed:

sun-java5-jre

The following partially installed packages will be configured:

glassfish-bin imq sunwderby

0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 16.6MB will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

Writing extended state information... Error!

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the glassfish package. This might mean
you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)

E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the sun-java5-bin package. This might
mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)

uriah at The-Fourth-Horseman:~$


Is there any way to remove the broken packages.  I tried using remove from
aptitude and got the same old error message


Thank you folks for your help

Uriah







On Jan 8, 2008 8:15 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> uriah heep wrote:
>
> > the below was what I got when I invoked the suggested commands in
> konsole
> >
> >
> >  sudo dpkg ?configure -a
> >
> > gives below result
>
> ...
>
> # sudo aptitude -f install
>
> IE, don't forget the "install".
> --
> derek
>
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