Problems with program updates since installing Java 8

[Oswulf]

I recently installed Oracle Java 8 (specifically jre1.8.0_112) on LDME 2, 64 bit. Since then every installation via Update Manager seems to be failing with error messages relating to .pack files (plugin.pack, javaws.pack, etc.). These files don't exist. However, there are corresponding .jar files (plugin.jar, javaws.jar, etc.) in the correct directories. Is there a way to fix this? I had thought about simply renaming the .jar files to .pack, but fear this might break something else.

Thanks.

[trytip]

re-install java again http://tecadmin.net/install-java-8-on-debian/#

[Oswulf]

re-install java again http://tecadmin.net/install-java-8-on-debian/#

Fails in a very similar manner:

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Setting up jre1.8.0-112 (1.8.0112-1) ...
Unpacking JAR files...
	plugin.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/plugin.pack
	javaws.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/javaws.pack
	deploy.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/deploy.pack
	rt.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/rt.pack
	jsse.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/jsse.pack
	charsets.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/charsets.pack
	localedata.jar...
Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/ext/localedata.pack
/var/lib/dpkg/info/jre1.8.0-112.postinst: line 641: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package jre1.8.0-112 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 jre1.8.0-112
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)