On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote: > I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink > system with the following steps: > > 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 > [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] > > 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20 > > Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error > message: > > Cannot open load file: debian-rundir > emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common > emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. > dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 > Errors were encountered while processing: > emacs20 > E: Sub-process returned an error code > > > Also attempted to install emacs20 with dpkg with similar results. > Could not find "debian-rundir" on disk or distribution CD. Where do I > get "debian-rundir"? >
I'm not sure I can be much help but as no one else has replied... On my system where I have both emacs19 and emacs20 installed and working I get $ locate debian-rundir /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.el /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc and $ dpkg -L emacs20 |grep debian-rundir $ I had a quick scan of the install scripts for emacs20 (package version 20.3-7) in /var/lib/dpkg/info and saw no mention of debian-rundir which is kinda odd, so what package version are you trying to install? I remember I had problems when first installing Debian (hamm) and had to install emacs19 to get emacs20 to install properly. Maybe you should try installing emacs20 first and *then* remove emacs19. Either way if emacs20 needs emacs19 stuff to install it's a bug and you should probably file a bug report. Probably not much help but there you go... Ian.
