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

Now when I try to install again, I am getting the below error,

Downloading Oracle Java 8...
--2017-04-24 17:34:33--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)... 104.80.89.58, 104.80.89.16
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|104.80.89.58|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz [following]
--2017-04-24 17:34:35--  https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)... 23.200.209.153, 2600:1409:a:183::2d3e, 2600:1409:a:193::2d3e
Connecting to edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|23.200.209.153|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1493035597_d0396e6a99df9ccfeb3f6d895673df09 [following]
--2017-04-24 17:34:37--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1493035597_d0396e6a99df9ccfeb3f6d895673df09
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|104.80.89.58|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable

    The file is already fully retrieved; nothing to do.

Download done.
Removing outdated cached downloads...
sha256sum mismatch jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz
Oracle JDK 8 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sbt:
 sbt depends on openjdk-8-jdk; however:
  Package openjdk-8-jdk is not installed.
  Package oracle-java8-installer which provides openjdk-8-jdk is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package sbt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 oracle-java8-installer
 sbt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

How do I solve this?

Update 1:

I have tried this solution. But still it didn't help me to solve this issue and getting the same error below?

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up oracle-java8-installer (8u131-1~webupd8~2) ...
Installing from local file /var/cache/oracle-jdk8-installer/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz
Removing outdated cached downloads...
install: cannot stat 'javaws-wrapper.sh': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sbt:
 sbt depends on openjdk-8-jdk; however:
  Package openjdk-8-jdk is not installed.
  Package oracle-java8-installer which provides openjdk-8-jdk is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package sbt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 oracle-java8-installer
 sbt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Answer 1

it's so long time since you asked. Because of no answer here, I show you my solution that works well for me.

The root cause of your problem may be from previous java install (it's not from any repositories, but from manually download package). Thus, you must manually remove post-install scripts, use below commands:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java8-installer.postinst -f
sudo dpkg --configure oracle-java8-installer

Hope them help you.