Comment 12 for bug 1069209

Hello era.

Thanks.

now it seems to be working.

Josy

Here is what I have done:
michael@michael-desktop:~$ COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l xem*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================================================
un xemacs-support <none> (no description available)
un xemacs21 <none> (no description available)
rc xemacs21-support 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2 all highly customizable text editor -- architecture independent support
un xemacs21-supportel <none> (no description available)

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo ls -alg /var/lib/dpkg/info/em*prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:09 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-bin-common.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 221 Sep 22 20:16 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:09 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 341 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24-bin-common.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 221 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24-common.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 294 Jun 29 17:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.prerm

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24 emacsen-common

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24 emacsen-common

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of erlang-mode:
 erlang-mode depends on emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14); however:
  Package emacsen-common is not installed.

dpkg: error processing erlang-mode (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 erlang-mode

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo ls -alg /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang*prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2930 Sep 20 15:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang-base.prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 217 Sep 20 15:45 /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang-mode.prerm

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq erlang-mode
(Reading database ... 334234 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing erlang-mode ...
michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq erlang-mode
(Reading database ... 334216 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing erlang-mode ...
Purging configuration files for erlang-mode ...
michael@michael-desktop:~$

michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
michael@michael-desktop:~$