Comment 1 for bug 1214053

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 code (1)

then:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6020119/