Ubuntu
mit-scheme package

cannot install emacs in gutsy

Bug #155199 reported by vishnu
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mit-scheme (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: emacs

root@raja-desktop:~# apt-get install emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
--snip--
The following extra packages will be installed:
  emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common
Suggested packages:
  emacs22-el
--snip--
Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common.
(Reading database ... 227093 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking emacsen-common (from .../emacsen-common_1.4.17_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-common.
Unpacking emacs22-common (from .../emacs22-common_22.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-bin-common.
Unpacking emacs22-bin-common (from .../emacs22-bin-common_22.1-0ubuntu5_i386.de
b) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-gtk.
Unpacking emacs22-gtk (from .../emacs22-gtk_22.1-0ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package emacs.
Unpacking emacs (from .../emacs_22.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.17) ...
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs

Setting up emacs22-common (22.1-0ubuntu5) ...

Setting up emacs22-bin-common (22.1-0ubuntu5) ...

Setting up emacs22-gtk (22.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs22 failed!
!! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
!! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
!! Please file a bug report against emacs22
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.P20406
dpkg: error processing emacs22-gtk (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
 emacs depends on emacs22-gtk | emacs22 | emacs22-nox; however:
  Package emacs22-gtk is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22 is not installed.
  Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacs22 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22-nox is not installed.
dpkg: error processing emacs (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs22-gtk
 emacs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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vishnu (ramavis2) wrote :
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Reinhard Tartler (siretart) wrote :

reassinging to correct package.

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Brett Presnell (bdp) wrote :

I had the same problem. It seems that the emacsen-common package was refusing to install two of its files (/etc/emacs/site-start.el and /etc/emacs/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el) and this caused the byte-compilation of .el files to fail. I was able to fix this by first installing the emacsen-common package, then using dpkg-deb to extract the files from the deb archive (dpkg-deb -X /var/cache/apt/archives/emacsen-common_1.4.17_all.deb emacsen-common_1.4.17_all) and then copying the missing files by hand into /etc/emacs. After that installation of the emacs package installed emacs22 without a hitch.

Prior to discovering this problem, I had removed all my emacs packages in an effort to get a clean install of emacs22 (I had been running emacs-snapshot and I think that emacs21 was also installed). In the process it seemed that there were a lot of emacs-snapshot and emacs21 related things around, and I had deleted some of them by hand, including /etc/emacs and various links in /usr/bin and /etc/alternatives. I don't know if this could cause reinstallation of emacs fail, but I thought that I should mention it just in case. I note that now I have links /usr/bin/emacs22 and /etc/alternatives/emacs22 and a few others, but no /usr/bin/emacs or /etc/alternatives/emacs. Is this intentional?

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Brett Presnell (bdp) wrote :

In case this wasn't clear, I meant to say that I had been running emacs-snapshot and emacs21 in Feisty, before upgrading to Gutsy.

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vishnu (ramavis2) wrote :

This was solved by removing the mit-scheme package:

sudo apt-get remove mit-scheme
sudo apt-get install emacs

Now to get some decent fonts working

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Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier) wrote :

I was able to install emacs22 with mit-scheme installed. I am marking this as closed. If anyone is still experiencing issues with installing emacs and mit-scheme at the same time in Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) , please reopen this bug.

Thanks!

Changed in mit-scheme:
status: New → Invalid
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