cannot install php-mode vor emacs on ubuntu dapper beta

[philipp]

Binary package hint: php-mode

E: php-mode: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Please attach the complete output.

[philipp (philipp-sutter)]

sudo apt-get install php-mode
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  php-mode
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/19.9kB of archives.
After unpacking 156kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package php-mode.
(Reading database ... 99028 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php-mode (from .../php-mode_0.1-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up php-mode (0.1-1) ...
install/php-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21
Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/php-mode/php3-mode.elc
While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/php-mode/php-mode.el:
  !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil))
Done
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/php-mode emacs21 emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1.
dpkg: error processing php-mode (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php-mode
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[RobertDahlström (cinnarob)]

I can confirm this since it happens for me too. Seems that #41808 is a duplicate

[RobertDahlström (cinnarob)]

Followup:
Clearing out /usr/share/emacs and /usr/share/emacs21 and then reinstalling dictionaries-common and then emacs solved the problem for me.

Seems some stale version of some package that php-mode depended on was interfering.

HTH

[Matthew Flaschen (matthew-flaschen)]

I was able to install it after clearing just /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp . Of course now I'll have to reinstall a whole bunch of stuff. I had in site-lisp:

cedet-common
dictionaries-common
ede
eieio
php-mode
semantic
speedbar