I don't know how many people use a ssl vpn to connect to work over ubuntu.

All i can say is that it is not fun.

The latest version of ubuntu has removed java from its repository, and this has caused a lot of problems.

After working at it for a few hours i managed to fix it, i hope my experience will help others.

First step, check how may versions of java you have on your machine:

update-java-alternatives -l

If you have more that one row, you are not in a good state.

(if for some reason you need more than one version you can use the following command to choose the default:

sudo update-alternatives --config java)

I have three rows. So the first thing i did was to remove as much as possible.

Try some of the following statements to see if it removes your versions:

sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jre default-jre default-jre-headless