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yaml-mode package

package yaml-mode (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #659217 reported by ibizatunes on 2010-10-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #533549: ln: creating symbolic link `./yaml-mode.el': File exists. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	yaml-mode (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: yaml-mode

yaml-mode failed

Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
====
yaml-mode:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.0.4-2
  Version table:
     0.0.4-2 0
        500 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages

Just try to install yaml-mode, and then got this error (installed from command line)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: yaml-mode (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 12 14:44:53 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
SourcePackage: yaml-mode
Title: package yaml-mode (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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ibizatunes (ibizatunes) wrote on 2010-10-12:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (267 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (450 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (73.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (8.3 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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era (era) wrote on 2010-10-13:

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.gz:
> install/yaml-mode: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22
> ln: creating symbolic link `./yaml-mode.el': File exists

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #533549, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.