Dear all, I get this trying to --configure emacs 19:
warning: /usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz is supposed to be a slave symlink to /etc/alternatives/emacs.1.gz, or nonexistent; however, readlink failed: Invalid argument Leaving emacs.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/emacs.1.gz) pointing to /usr/man/man1/emacs.1emacs20.gz. Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) emacs-install emacs19 install/w3-el: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs19 install/gnus: Handling installation of emacsen flavor emacs19 install/gnus: byte-compiling for emacs19 Cannot open load file: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/custom-init.el emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/gnus emacs19 emacs20 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs19 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19 It's pretty much a vanilla system, so what's the problem (and how do I correct it) Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/