Re: Emacs20 install error

[Carl Greco <cgreco@novia.net>]

Ian, Thanks for your help.  I have the
	/usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc
file but not the .el one which, I suspect, is the problem.  Install
script is probably looking for *.el to byte compile it for emacs20.
Unless I hear otherwise, my next step will be to purge both emacs19
and 20 and start over.

> On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote:
> > I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink
> > system with the following steps:
> > 
> > 1) Remove emacs19:  dpkg -r emacs19
> >    [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed]
> > 
> > 2) Install emacs:  apt-get install emacs20
> > 
> >    Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error
> >    message: 
> > 
> >    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 28.
> >    dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure):
> >    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
> >    Errors were encountered while processing:
> >    emacs20
> >    E: Sub-process returned an error code
> > 
> > 
> > Also attempted to install emacs20 with dpkg with similar results.
> > Could not find "debian-rundir" on disk or distribution CD.  Where do I
> > get "debian-rundir"?
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure I can be much help but as no one else has replied...  On my
> system where I have both emacs19 and emacs20 installed and working I get
> 
> $ locate debian-rundir
> /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.el
> /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc
> 
> and
> 
> $ dpkg -L emacs20 |grep debian-rundir
> $ 
> 
> I had a quick scan of the install scripts for emacs20 (package version
> 20.3-7) in /var/lib/dpkg/info and saw no mention of debian-rundir
> which is kinda odd, so what package version are you trying to install?
> I remember I had problems when first installing Debian (hamm) and had
> to install emacs19 to get emacs20 to install properly.  Maybe you
> should try installing emacs20 first and *then* remove emacs19.  Either
> way if emacs20 needs emacs19 stuff to install it's a bug and you
> should probably file a bug report.
> 
> Probably not much help but there you go...
> 
> Ian.
> 


-- 
    Carl Greco
    cgreco@novia.net