emacs21 fails to install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
emacs21 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
High
|
Matt Zimmerman |
Bug Description
In a fresh install of the Ubuntu 1.0 preview release, emacs21 fails to install:
Setting up emacs21 (21.3+1-5ubuntu3) ...
emacs-install emacs21
install/
Warning: Lisp directory `/etc/emacs21' does not exist.
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/
Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/share/
Cannot open load file: disp-table
emacs-install: /usr/lib/
emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/
dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs21
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I've made sure that the emacs21 package was fetched from the net archive, not
from the CD (in case of a bad CD burn).
Emacs21 is installed by default in Ubuntu. Is this an upgrade from Debian
woody, a custom install, or did the installation actually fail in this way?
The directories which are flagged as missing are contained in the emacs21-common
package, and emacs21 (indirectly) depends on an exact version of emacs21-common,
so I don't see how this could happen