Comment 6 for bug 949369

My bug (#991526) was marked a duplicate of this bug. I tried "apt-get remove --purge xemacs21" but since xemacs was not installed on my system this did not do much, except generate error messages similar to the ones I had before. Strangely (to me, at least) these error messages involve the packages I've tried to install (emacs and auctex), but were not specified in the actual command I tried now.

I'm copying the output below. Thanks for looking into this!

/Mats

root@MatsDesk:/home/mats# apt-get remove --purge xemacs21
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xemacs21 is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up emacs23 (23.3+1-1ubuntu9) ...
emacs-install emacs23
install/auctex: Setting up for emacs23 (log file: /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/auctex//CompilationLog)...
    The current directory must be set to the ITT directory.
    Change the default to the ITT directory and re-run
    this script.

emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 4.
dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of auctex:
 auctex depends on emacs23 | emacs22 | emacs21 | emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs23 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs23-lucid which provides emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs23-nox which provides emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs22 is not installed.
  Package emacs21 is not installed.
  Package emacs-snapshot is not installed.
dpkg: error processing auctex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:
 emacs depends on emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; however:
  Package emacs23 is not configured yet.
  Package emacs23-lucid which provides emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs23-nox which provides emacs23 is not installed.
  Package emacs23-lucid is not installed.
  Package emacs23-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.
                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                    Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs23
 auctex
 emacs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@MatsDesk:/home/mats#