help me unbreak my box please

[Thomas Adams <tadams@kik.informatik.fh-dortmund.de>]

Since the installation of my hamm box, something is broken. I want to fix it
to make an upgrade to slink as painless as possible but don't know how, i.e.
how do I unbreak things here?

dselect says:

    ------- Broken Optional packages in section contrib/mail -------            
 U-- Opt contrib/ mailcrypt    3.4-4       3.4-4       Emacs lisp interface to P
    ------- Broken Optional packages in section tex -------                     
 U-- Opt tex      auctex       9.9b-3      9.9b-3      An integrated environment

This computer was installed with one of the prepackaged options in hamm,
namely "Scientific Workstation". After installation, lots of EMacs stuff was
broken which I could fix by installing mailcrypt. But now I don't know what
else I could try.

Thanks a lot,
Thomas