Re: jde installation error

I have never been able to get the jde package from an Ubuntu repository
to work. It's not difficult, however, to install it manually. Visit
jdee.sourceforge.net for installation instructions.

Ciao,

Benjamin
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 23:00 -0500, weixin yuan wrote:
> I tried doing the follow in ubuntu 7.10 but the package just doesn't install. I am a newbie to linux so I don't know what to do. My school uses emacs and jde for the java class so it would be helpful to have an ide environment to use with emacs for homeworks. 
> 
> wei@wei-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install jde
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   ant checkstyle libtomcat5-java
> Recommended packages:
>   ecb
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   jde
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1572kB of archives.
> After unpacking 3846kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously deselected package jde.
> (Reading database ... 98912 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking jde (from .../archives/jde_2.3.5.1-2_all.deb) ...
> Setting up jde (2.3.5.1-2) ...
> Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/jde', line 1: the first line does not contain valid `Document' field
> dpkg: error processing jde (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  jde
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
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