Comment 4 for bug 1062823

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

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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.
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