Unable to install emacs24 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

[Andrew Pennebaker]

I've added the cassou ppa, but when I try to install emacs24 or emacs-snapshot, apt-get can't seem to find the right packages:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
...
$ sudo apt-get update
...
$ sudo apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el emacs24-common-non-dfsg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package emacs24
E: Unable to locate package emacs24-el
E: Unable to locate package emacs24-common-non-dfsg
$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package emacs-snapshot is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'emacs-snapshot' has no installation candidate

[Don Lindsay (don-lindsay-x)]

I'm having problems with emacs-snapshot as well.

apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up emacs-snapshot (2:20130821-1~ppa1~raring1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot 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 emacs-snapshot
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.ugqW4i
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs-snapshot-gtk:
 emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs-snapshot is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs-snapshot
 emacs-snapshot-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So I thought maybe there isn't anything installed yet that can byte compile elisp source, but apt/dpkg doesn't know that, so:

apt-get install emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  emacs
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 1,548 B of archives.
After this operation, 25.6 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrors.liquidweb.com/ubuntu/ raring/main emacs all 45.0 [1,548 B]
Fetched 1,548 B in 0s (5,599 B/s)
Selecting previously unselected package emacs.
(Reading database ... 318162 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking emacs (from .../archives/emacs_45.0_all.deb) ...
Setting up emacs-snapshot (2:20130821-1~ppa1~raring1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot 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 emacs-snapshot
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.M9kdn2
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs-snapshot-gtk:
 emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs-snapshot is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up emacs (45.0) ...No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs-snapshot
 emacs-snapshot-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error...

[Don Lindsay (don-lindsay-x)]

A couple other things that might pertain:

1) before this problem occured I was getting a number of compilation errors from cl-macs.el

2) neither error occured before the last emacs24 update.

[Don Lindsay (don-lindsay-x)]

almost forgot

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

@Don, could you please open a new issue? I'm not sure your problem is related

To both of you, could you please re-apply all the steps described at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/ ?

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

@Andrew what is your ubuntu version?

[Andrew Pennebaker (apennebaker)]

As stated in the original message, 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Damien Cassou <email address hidden>wrote:

> @Andrew what is your ubuntu version?
>
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> Title:
> Unable to install emacs24 on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
>
> Status in Emacs-snapshot for ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I've added the cassou ppa, but when I try to install emacs24 or emacs-
> snapshot, apt-get can't seem to find the right packages:
>
> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
> ...
> $ sudo apt-get update
> ...
> $ sudo apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el emacs24-common-non-dfsg
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package emacs24
> E: Unable to locate package emacs24-el
> E: Unable to locate package emacs24-common-non-dfsg
> $ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package emacs-snapshot is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
>
> E: Package 'emacs-snapshot' has no installation candidate
>
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[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I've just tried and it works for me. To both of you, could you please re-apply all the steps described at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/ and send the output of each command?

[Andrew Pennebaker (apennebaker)]

As I said in the original bug description, apt-get says "E: Package 'emacs-snapshot' has no installation candidate".

Could you try the steps on a fresh Ubuntu installation, e.g. with VirtualBox?

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

@andrew: that's exactly what I did to answer that it works for me. I'm very surprised that installing emacs24 shows some error messages about emacs-snapshot. That's why I would like to give me the full output of all the commands listed at https://launchpad.net/~cassou/+archive/emacs/

[Damien Cassou (cassou)]

I'm closing this bug as it hasn't seen new activity. Feel free to reopen with requested information.