Error installing Emacs20 in Potato
I've been getting this error for a couple weeks, and it's keeping me
from installing a bunch of other stuff. Anyone know what the problem
might be? Here's what I have installed (more or less):
$ dpkg -l | grep emacs
rc emacs19 19.34-23 The GNU Emacs editor.
iF emacs20 20.4-3 The GNU Emacs editor.
iU emacs20-el 20.4-3 GNU Emacs LISP (.el) files.
ii emacsen-common 1.4.9 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii gnuserv 2.1alpha-5 client/server addon for the emacs
editor
ii xemacs20-bin 20.4-14 Editor and kitchen sink -- support
binaries
ii xemacs20-nomule 20.4-14 Editor and kitchen sink -- Non-mule
binary
ii xemacs20-suppor 20.4-14 Editor and kitchen sink --
architecture inde
Here's the excerpt from dselect:
----------------------------
Wrote /etc/emacs20/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
Done
install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common-install: cd:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev: No such file or directory
emacs-install:
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common-install emacs20
xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28.
dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs20-el:
emacs20-el depends on emacs20 (= 20.4-3); however:
Package emacs20 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing emacs20-el (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs20
emacs20-el
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press RETURN to continue.
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