xemacs21 not found when byte compiling for xemacs21

[abdelwaheb miled]

package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 10 05:47:34 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[era (era)]

Quoting DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> Setting up dictionaries-common (1.12.1ubuntu2) ...
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs21
> /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common: 64: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common: xemacs21: not found

Huh? That's really curious.

Could you please follow up with the output of "dpkg -s xemacs21" and "apt-cache policy xemacs21"?

Unless you specifically require xemacs21, you might be able to work around the problem by completely removing it from your system. If you want Emacs, you may be better off with emacs23 (or emacs24 if it's available by the time you read this) which is GNU Emacs. Unfortunately, Xemacs appears to be by and large unmaintained at this point.

[Mickey Mouse (iamstuartclarke)]

This happened to me, even though I did not have/want emacs on my system.

Fixed with:

sudo apt-get purge emacs*

[Jonas Petersson (catellie)]

Mickey's fix solve this for me too - when I later installed emacs23 update-alternatives cleaned out severel old references to xemacs21. Note however that some files are left behind in /usr/share/xemacs21/ - the seem harmless, though.

[Mats Nyberg (matsnyberg)]

I actually had a pretty freshly installed Ubuntu. I also had separate
partitions for home, /usr/local etc so I finally just made a fresh install
and it's been working fine ever since.

I believe it was an interrupted update of some sort that broke my deb-db.

Thanks for taking the.time. Sorry I can't be of any help our shared problem.

Cheers
Mats

Den 10 dec 2012 20.48 skrev "Jonas Petersson" <email address hidden>:

> Mickey's fix solve this for me too - when I later installed emacs23
> update-alternatives cleaned out severel old references to xemacs21. Note
> however that some files are left behind in /usr/share/xemacs21/ - the
> seem harmless, though.
>
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> Title:
> xemacs21 not found when byte compiling for xemacs21
>
> Status in “dictionaries-common” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 127
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
> Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
> Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
> ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu May 10 05:47:34 2012
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> error exit status 127
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
> Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned
> error exit status 127
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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