AucTeX doesn't get installed correctly with emacs 24

[Lennart Karssen]

As reported in AskUbuntu (http://askubuntu.com/questions/215641/auctex-in-12-04-ignores-emacs-24) the AucTeX package in Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't get installed correctly for emacs 24. I can confirm this for 12.10. As a result opening .tex files in emacs 24 will not load auctex and the AucTeX menus (and other functionality) don't appear.
The solution ( a one digit addition to the install script) is also mentioned in the askUbuntu thread.

Apparently Debian has already fixed this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683032

I am using the following version of the auctex package: 11.86-2ubuntu2

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eric Anderson (kluwak)]

Relatedly, the AucTeX package doesn't accept emacs24 as satisfying its dependencies:

$ apt-cache show auctex
Package: auctex
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 4133
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Davide G. M. Salvetti <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 11.86-2ubuntu2
Replaces: preview-latex
Provides: preview-latex
Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0, emacs23 | emacs22 | emacs21 | emacs-snapshot, make, preview-latex-style, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info

[Kevin (kevin999)]

I have this problem in ubuntu 13.10 too, and didn' manage to fix it. Even installing it from elpa didn' help.

[Kevin (kevin999)]

I just realized that the problem appears only if I have a space in my local Variable-section.

For example if the file ends like

%% Local Variables:
%% coding: utf-8
%% fill-column: 74

%% TeX-master: t
%% End:

It doesn't work, but with

%% Local Variables:
%% coding: utf-8
%% fill-column: 74
%% TeX-master: t
%% End:

it works.