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

For Ubuntu 19.04 and Oracle JDK 11:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java11-installer-local.postinst -f
sudo dpkg --configure oracle-java11-installer-local