Ubuntu
dictionaries-common package

  1. Bug #997457
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 997457

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

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.