Ubuntu – oracle-java-10-installer package gives 404 error on Ubuntu 18.04

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I am trying to install anything in Ubuntu 18.04 and I get this error trying to install rar It's happend with so many programs

ivan@ivan-X441UVK:~$ sudo apt-get install rar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
rar is already the newest version (2:5.5.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up oracle-java10-installer (10.0.2-1~linuxuprising+2) ...
Using wget settings from /var/cache/oracle-jdk10-installer/wgetrc
Downloading Oracle Java 10...
--2018-10-18 01:09:56--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/10.0.2+13/19aef61b38124481863b1413dce1855f/jdk-10.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
Resolving download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)... 23.59.80.142
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|23.59.80.142|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/10.0.2+13/19aef61b38124481863b1413dce1855f/jdk-10.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz [following]
--2018-10-18 01:09:56--  https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/10.0.2+13/19aef61b38124481863b1413dce1855f/jdk-10.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
Resolving edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)... 104.91.146.78, 2600:1419:10:185::2d3e, 2600:1419:10:189::2d3e
Connecting to edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|104.91.146.78|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/10.0.2+13/19aef61b38124481863b1413dce1855f/jdk-10.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz?AuthParam=1539843116_9746d734e74d2667e722d6f85f1cb0a3 [following]
--2018-10-18 01:09:56--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/10.0.2+13/19aef61b38124481863b1413dce1855f/jdk-10.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz?AuthParam=1539843116_9746d734e74d2667e722d6f85f1cb0a3
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|23.59.80.142|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2018-10-18 01:09:58 ERROR 404: Not Found.

download failed
Oracle JDK 10 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java10-installer (--configure):
 installed oracle-java10-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 oracle-java10-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Best Answer

There is a not fully installed or removed package. For solution just delete or uninstall it.

Use:

sudo apt-get purge "package name"
In my case I used:
sudo apt-get purge oracle-java10-installer