I had the same issue in xenial and could resolve it.
The problem occurs when pylint package was installed before emacs. The postinst script of pylint installs the pylint.el properly only if emacs has been installed.
To workaround the problem, reconfigure pylint as:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure pylint
I had the same issue in xenial and could resolve it.
The problem occurs when pylint package was installed before emacs.
The postinst script of pylint installs the pylint.el properly only if emacs has been installed.
To workaround the problem, reconfigure pylint as:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure pylint