Removed failed update from Update Manager

[Shannon McMackin]

Mark Nichols wrote:
> A few days ago I installed a slew of Java 6 packages included 
> sun-java6-doc. Which unfortunately doesn't work. Now every time I run 
> Update Manager I get the same error message and have to type a "no" and 
> hit return in order for the rest of the updates to complete.
> 
> There must be a way to remove failed updates from being tried again on 
> subsequent runs of the updater, but I haven't been successful in finding 
> them yet.
> 
> TIA,
> Mark
> 
Launch Synaptic Package Manager and completely remove the offending 
package.  In fact, if it's a bad update, it'll probably come up 
indicating it has broken packages.