Public bug reported:

System:Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS running a KDE desktop environment

Description: The adept manager reports the following errors:
sun-java6-bin BROKEN (upgradable)
sun-java6-jre BROKEN (installed)
sun-java6-plugin BROKEN (installed)

upon trying to fix these errors from a command line using:
sudo apt-get install -f

I receive the following errors:
Preparing to replace sun-java6-bin 6-17-0ubuntu1.8.04 (using 
.../sun-java6-bin_6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04_i386.deb) ...
sun-dlj-v1-1 license has already been accepted
Unpacking replacement sun-java6-bin ...
dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java6-bin_6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun', which is also in package tersus
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java6-bin_6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Here is the apt-cash policy report for sun-java6-jre:
apt-cache policy sun-java6-jre
sun-java6-jre:
  Installed: 6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04
  Candidate: 6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04
  Version table:
 *** 6.20dlj-0ubuntu1.8.04 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     6-06-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
     6-00-2~bpo.1 0
        500 http://apt.last.fm debian/stable Packages


I'm not an Ubuntu expert so please let me know if I've left out any important 
or relevant information that would help to further isolate this problem.

** Affects: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: broken sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

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Errors repairing broken packages sun-java6-jre, sun-java6-bin, and 
sun-java6-plugin (while replacing java6-jre 6.17 with 6.20)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575790
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