ess will not install / upgrade; upstream 13.05-1 is buggy

[Diego Zea]

I have troubles with emacs23 update today and delete it install emacs23-nox

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: emacs23-nox 23.4+1-4ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-21.32-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
AptOrdering:
 emacs23: Remove
 emacs23-nox: Install
 emacs23-nox: Configure
 ess: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 18 11:58:20 2013
ErrorMessage: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-13 (217 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20120926)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: emacs23
Title: package emacs23-nox 23.4+1-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-26 (22 days ago)

[Diego Zea (diego-zea)]

Trying to get emacs23 again:

dzea@deepthought:~$ sudo apt-get install emacs23
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Los siguientes paquetes se ELIMINARÁN:
  emacs23-nox
Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS:
  emacs23
0 actualizados, 1 se instalarán, 1 para eliminar y 1 no actualizados.
2 no instalados del todo o eliminados.
Necesito descargar 3.346 kB de archivos.
Se utilizarán 624 kB de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación.
¿Desea continuar [S/n]? S
Des:1 http://ar.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main emacs23 amd64 23.4+1-4ubuntu1 [3.346 kB]
Descargados 3.346 kB en 56seg. (59,1 kB/s)
dpkg: emacs23-nox: problemas de dependencias, pero se desinstalará de todas formas
 tal y como se solicitó:
 emacs depende de emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; sin embargo:
  El paquete `emacs23' no está instalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' provee `emacs23' pero va a ser desinstalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-lucid' no está instalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' va a ser desinstalado.
 proofgeneral depende de emacs23 | emacs23-nox | emacs23-lucid; sin embargo:
  El paquete `emacs23' no está instalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' provee `emacs23' pero va a ser desinstalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' va a ser desinstalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-lucid' no está instalado.
 emacs depende de emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; sin embargo:
  El paquete `emacs23' no está instalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' provee `emacs23' pero va a ser desinstalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-lucid' no está instalado.
  El paquete `emacs23-nox' va a ser desinstalado.
 auctex depende de emacs23 | emacs24 | emacs-snapshot; sin e
(Leyendo la base de datos ... 704601 ficheros o directorios instalados actualmente.)
Desinstalando emacs23-nox ...
Remove proofgeneral for emacs23
remove/proofgeneral: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove pylint for emacs23
remove/pylint: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove mpqc-support for emacs23
remove/mpqc: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove mmm-mode for emacs23
install/mmm-mode: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs23
install/mmm-mode: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove lush-library for emacs23
remove/lush: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove ess for emacs23
remove/ess: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove dictionaries-common for emacs23
remove/dictionaries-common: Purging byte-compiled files for flavour emacs23
Remove coq for emacs23
remove/coq: purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove cmake-data for emacs23
remove/cmake-data: Purging byte-compiled files for emacs23
Remove auctex for emacs23
auctex/remove: Removing parsed (La)TeX macros for emacs23...rm: no se puede borrar «/var/lib/auctex/emacs23»: El directorio no está vacío
ERROR: remove script from auctex package failed
dpkg: error al procesar emacs23-nox (--remove):
 el subproceso instalado el script pre-removal devolvió el código de salida de error 1
update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/emacs23-nox para proveer /usr/bin/emacs (emacs) en modo automático
Install auctex for emacs23
...

[krahim (karim-rahim)]

I believe I have the same problem:

sudo apt-get install ess
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  xlispstat pspp jags
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ess
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,672 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,572 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package ess.
(Reading database ... 345522 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ess (from .../ess_13.05-1quantal0_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Setting up ess (13.05-1quantal0) ...
Install ess for emacs
Install ess for emacs23
install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs23
loading 'ess-compat ..
loading 'ess-custom ..
loading 'ess ..
loading 'ess-site ..
[ess-site:] ess-lisp-directory = '/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess'
[ess-site:] require 'ess *ITSELF* ...
[ess-site:] .. after requiring 'ess ...
[ess-site:] Before requiring dialect 'ess-*-d ....
[ess-site:] require 'ess-r-d ...
[ess-r-d:] (require 'ess-s-l)
[ess-s-l:] (def** ) only ...
enabling speedbar support
[ess-r-d:] (autoload ..) & (def** ..)
[ess-site:] require 'ess-sp3-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-sp5-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-sp6-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-sta-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-xls-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-vst-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-arc-d ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-sas-d ...
[ess-sas-d:] require 'comint & 'shell ...
[ess-sas-d:] require 'ess-sas-l ...
[ess-sas-l:] (require 'ess) ...
[ess-sas-l:] (require 'ess-mode) ...
[ess-sas-l:] (autoload ..) (def** ..) etc ...
[ess-sas-d:] (autoload ..) (def** ..) ...
[ess-site:] require 'essd-els ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-bugs-l ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-menu ...
[ess-site:] require 'ess-toolbar ...
[ess-site:] before (ess-r-s-versions-creation) ...
[ess-site:] before creating ess-versions-* ...
[ess-site:] (let ... before (ess-r-versions-create) ...
[ess-site:] after ess-versions-created ...
[ess-site:] after ess-check-R-prog... ...
[ido:]
[ess-site:] *very* end ...
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-arc-d.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-bugs-d.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-bugs-l.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-compat.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-comp.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-custom.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-dde.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-debug.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/essd-els.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-developer.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-eldoc.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-font-lock.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-gretl.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-help.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-inf.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-install.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/ess/ess-jags-d.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs23/site-li...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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