Hi,

I finally turned to emacs 23 CVS version, which is now both available in 
windows and linux, with a much better font support and Unicode support.
Good luck!

Da

montun wrote:
> I got the same error. Here is the log:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common
> Suggested packages:
>   emacs22-el
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   emacs emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common
> 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 21,0MB of archives.
> After this operation, 65,7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
> Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main emacsen-common 1.4.17 [17,6kB]
> Get:2 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main emacs22-common 22.2-0ubuntu2 [18,8MB]
> Get:3 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main emacs22-bin-common 22.2-0ubuntu2 [168kB]                                                                   
> Get:4 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe emacs22-gtk 22.2-0ubuntu2 [1980kB]                                                                     
> Get:5 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main emacs 22.2-0ubuntu2 [6362B]                                                                                
> Fetched 21,0MB in 3min37s (96,2kB/s)                                                                                                                        
> Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common.
> (Reading database ... 259939 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking emacsen-common (from .../emacsen-common_1.4.17_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-common.
> Unpacking emacs22-common (from .../emacs22-common_22.2-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-bin-common.
> Unpacking emacs22-bin-common (from .../emacs22-bin-common_22.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-gtk.
> Unpacking emacs22-gtk (from .../emacs22-gtk_22.2-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ...
> Selecting previously deselected package emacs.
> Unpacking emacs (from .../emacs_22.2-0ubuntu2_all.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.17) ...
> emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
>
> Setting up emacs22-common (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
>
> Setting up emacs22-bin-common (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
>
> Setting up emacs22-gtk (22.2-0ubuntu2) ...
> Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.
>
> !! Byte-compilation for emacs22 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 emacs22
> !! and attach the file /tmp/emacs22.HB6241
> dpkg: error processing emacs22-gtk (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
>  emacs depends on emacs22-gtk | emacs22 | emacs22-nox; however:
>   Package emacs22-gtk is not configured yet.
>   Package emacs22 is not installed.
>   Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacs22 is not configured yet.
>   Package emacs22-nox is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing emacs (--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:
>  emacs22-gtk
>  emacs
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> The contens of the log file  /tmp/emacs22.HB6241
> emacs-install emacs22
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs22
> /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common: 70: emacs22: not found
> emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs22
> emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22
> /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common: 44: emacs22: not found
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
>
> It seems like a dependency problem when installing the package "emacs".
>
> An easy fix for the problem is to directly install the packages
> "emacs22" instead, it installs without problems.
>
>