On 20 August 2018 at 23:06, Göran Broström wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | On 2018-08-20 17:43, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote: | > | Hello, | > | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems | > | is failing with an error message. | > | > This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the | > ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now. | > | > Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is | > affected. | | And 18.04. I get exactly the same error message as Eva. | | > Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the | > (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold' | > to supress updates). | > | > There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try | > these: | > | > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb | > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb | > | > and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV. | | "Works for me" too.
These are now in Debian's "experimental". If nothing creeps up I'll upload 17.11-5 to unstable soon. Would be good to know if it works on 16.04 too. Does that have support for elpa-* packages for Emacs? Dirk | Göran | | > Dirk | > | > | root@kore:/home/eva# apt-get install ess | > | [...] | > | Install ess for emacs24 | > | install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24 | > | ERROR: install script from ess package failed | > | dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure): | > | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 | > | Errors were encountered while processing: | > | ess | > | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) | > | | > | | > | Installing the previous version worked perfectly. The relevant | > | sources.list line is | > | | > | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/ | > | | > | What is causing this error and how can it be fixed? | > | Thanks, | > | Eva. | > | | > | _______________________________________________ | > | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | > | R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org | > | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian | > -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian