emacs24 keeps getting downgraded (by apt-get) to emacs23 on 12.04

[keldo]

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64. This is the third time it has happened in the last week or two, the most recent being a half hour ago. When it happens I have to follow your instructions to remove all traces of emacs23 completely and reinstall emacs24. After that, I install emacs-goodies-el.

Can you let me know what's going on? Let me know if you need any more information. Thanks.

EDIT: When trying to reinstall emacs24 after removing emacs23, I get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 emacs24 : Depends: emacs24-bin-common (= 24.2+1-1~ppa1~precise5) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Pretty much the same issue happened with emacs-snapshot many days ago.

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

Should be fixed now. Please follow the cleaning and installation instructions on

https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/

[keldo (keldo)]

Hello, something's broken in your process somewhere. The same thing happened again a few minutes ago; the only difference being that I am on 12.10 now.

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

What happens if you follow all the instructions from the begining and never install emacs-goodies?

[keldo (keldo)]

So I tried completely removing everything and tried installing emacs24 (without emacs-goodies-el) as per your instructions, and I get the following output:

***BEGIN CONSOLE OUTPUT
keldo@computer:~$ sudo apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el emacs24-common-non-dfsg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
emacs24-common-non-dfsg is already the newest version.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 emacs24 : Depends: emacs24-bin-common (= 24.1+1-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
***END CONSOLE OUTPUT

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:28 PM, keldo <email address hidden> wrote:

> So I tried completely removing everything and tried installing emacs24
> (without emacs-goodies-el) as per your instructions, and I get the
> following output:
>

could you please copy/paste all the console session from the first
instruction (apt-get remove)?

At the end, can you please do:

$ apt-cache policy emacs24

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[keldo (keldo)]

I saw a few minutes ago that emacs24 was built successfully, so I tried reinstalling emacs24 yet again (it went fine). Only after that did I see your new message. I'll provide the output from apt-get remove if/when this issue crops up again.

The output of apt-cache policy emacs24 is as follows:
*** BEGIN CONSOLE OUTPUT
keldo@computer:~$ apt-cache policy emacs24
emacs24:
  Installed: 24.2+1-1~ppa1~quantal5
  Candidate: 24.2+1-1~ppa1~quantal5
  Version table:
 *** 24.2+1-1~ppa1~quantal5 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     24.1+1-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
*** END CONSOLE OUTPUT

I'll monitor this bug in case you need any more information. Thanks!

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:48 PM, keldo <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'll provide the output from apt-get remove if/when
> this issue crops up again.
>

please keep me informed

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Damien Cassou
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without losing
enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

[immerrr again (immerrr-k)]

Hi!

I have trouble installing emacs24 on fresh precise install. I went with the purge instructions, and still no success. emacs24-common is not installable, so emacs24-bin-common has an unresolved dependency. Here goes:

$ aptitude show emacs24-bin-common | grep Depends
Depends: emacs24-common (= 24.2+1-1~ppa1~precise7), libc6 (>= 2.14),

$ apt-cache policy emacs24-common
emacs24-common:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

$ apt-cache policy emacs24-bin-common
emacs24-bin-common:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 24.2+1-1~ppa1~precise7
  Version table:
     24.2+1-1~ppa1~precise7 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cassou-emacs-precise.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/cassou/emacs/ubuntu precise main

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:27 PM, immerrr again <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have trouble installing emacs24 on fresh precise install.

The packages have just been rebuilt. Could you please try again now
from the beginning of the process described in
https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/? If it does not work,
please send me a copy of the results.

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Damien Cassou
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm."
Winston Churchill

[immerrr again (immerrr-k)]

Thanks, the update worked like a charm.