Re: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato
For the emacs20 error, I think you need to make the directory
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg-dev and copy debian-changelog-mode.el
into it from /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dpkg. I though that this
problem was fixed already. Anyways, see if that helps.
Marshal
From: "John R. Sheets" <jsheets@codeweavers.com>
Subject: Error installing Emacs20 in Potato
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:32:15 +0000
> 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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