dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (--configure):

Question

I am trying to install sbt on Ubuntu 16.04. I have mistakenly stopped the process when running the following command,

sudo apt-get install sbt

Answer 1

The following worked in Ubuntu 18.10

cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
sed -i 's|JAVA_VERSION=8u191|JAVA_VERSION=8u201|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sed -i 's|PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u191-b12/2787e4a523244c269598db4e85c51e0c/|PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u201-b09/42970487e3af4f5aa5bca3f542482c60/|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sed -i 's|SHA256SUM_TGZ="53c29507e2405a7ffdbba627e6d64856089b094867479edc5ede4105c1da0d65"|SHA256SUM_TGZ="cb700cc0ac3ddc728a567c350881ce7e25118eaf7ca97ca9705d4580c506e370"|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sed -i 's|J_DIR=jdk1.8.0_191|J_DIR=jdk1.8.0_201|' oracle-java8-installer.*