Dear all, Here is stderr from and attempt to configure emacs19. FWIW, I have a working emacs20 setup.
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) install: *.elc: No such file or directory 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 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs19-el: emacs19-el depends on emacs19; however: Package emacs19 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing emacs19-el (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacs19 emacs19-el Any ideas? 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/