configuring emacs fails on mipsel wheezy

[Paul Roge <proge@riseup.net>]

Hello, 

After upgrading debian from squeeze to wheezy on a lemote yeeloong laptop (linux-image-3.0.0-1-loongson-2f), emacs23 configuration fails with the following two error messages from dpkg --configure:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

and 

emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 100

What do I need to do to install emacs?

thanks,
Paul