Java Jre Headless
This Friday I saw that I had 2 held back packages for some reason when I ran apt-get upgrade, so naturally I did what any inexperienced sysadmin would do and uninstalled the packages in the hopes that I could simply re-install them and the problem would be solved. Little did I know, I just made the situation worse. When I tried to reinstall openjdk-8-jre-headless, I got this: $ apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openjdk-8-jre-headless: Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I tried to upgrade the mentioned package manually, but to no avail. $ apt-get upgrade ca-certificates-java Reading package lists. Done Building dependency tree Reading state information. Done Calculating upgrade. Ca-certificates-java is already the newest version.
Java Awt Headless
Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Looking around I saw no mention of a solution to this exact error anywhere.
Java Headless
I use ElasticSearch on the server, which I restarted, but I should've expected that it wouldn't start up at this point. So now I'm without Java and my users are without search. What is going on and how can I fix this?