attempt to reinstall emacs fails - byte compilation for emacs22 failed!

[fieldri1]

Binary package hint: emacs

I'm trying to completely remove my Emacs installation and rebuild it from scratch. However, I've purged the files but when I try and reinstall it I get the following error:

Setting up emacs22 (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
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.ixkJgM
dpkg: error processing emacs22 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs22
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The version of Ubuntu I'm using:
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

I was hoping to end up with Emacs installed so I could then add AUCTeX, preview-latex and RefTeX all installed.

The error file that the message gave reads:

install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
cd: 35: can't cd to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/a2ps emacs22 failed at /
usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 3.

Thanks in anticipation

Richard

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[fieldri1 (r-fieldsend)]

I have fixed this issue after some experimenting. I'd tried various 'apt-get purge' and uninstall approaches, but whenever I tried the reinstall I got the above error message.

Eventually I tried a purge and then removed *all* mentions of emacs in /etc/ and /var/.

After this, I tried (one more time) and I now have a working Emacs, with AUCTeX installed properly, which is what I was after.

[era (era)]

This hints at a problem in the a2ps package. Reassigning accordingly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for a2ps (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]