emacs20 woes
Hi all,
I'm having trouble to get emacs 20 properly installed on a hamm
system. If I try to (re-)install the emacs-package, I get:
pollux# dpkg --install emacs20_20.2-7.deb
Selecting previously deselected package emacs20.
(Reading database ... 24424 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace emacs20 20.2-7 (using emacs20_20.2-7.deb) ...
(...)
Cannot open load file: debian-rundir
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common
emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs20_20.2-7.deb
The perl-code in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install around line 26
looks like
20: sub execute {
21: my(@cmd) = @_;
22: if($dry_run) {
23: print join(" ", @cmd) . "\n";
24: } else {
25: if(system(@cmd) != 0) {
26: die "emacs-$action: " . join(" ", @cmd) . " failed";
27: }
28: }
29: }
My perl is rather, eh, non-existant, I couldn't tell if there was a bug
here. I searched the list-archives for postings on problems with
emacs20, and I found people had success with removing the tm package.
However, the tm package was not installed in the first place, so I
cannot remove that.
I downloaded the emacs20 packages from slink to see if they would be any
better. An attempt to install emacs20_20.3-1.deb however hangs on the
inability to remove the emacs20_20.2-7.deb package. I cannot for the
life of me find the --force option to dpkg that will remove/purge the
emacs20 package, it keeps telling me:
dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs20
I'm out of ideas. Any wise words of comfort around?
Eric
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