Comment 2 for bug 782033

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> emacs23 (23.2+1-7ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
> emacs-install emacs23
> install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23
> >>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))
> >>Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))
> >>Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))
> emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 2.
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von emacs23 (--configure):
> Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück

This looks like a duplicate of bug #582341 but without more information, it is hard to tell. What is the installation status of the packages supplying these files? If you purge and reinstall, can you then install Emacs as planned? Are there other missing files in the system? (This is untested, but I assume it should not normally produce any "file not found" error messages: cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | xargs ls >/dev/null)