Just to update you on the installation problem for emacs21:
Before trying the last suggestion, I did an update for several
packages
from Apple that needed restart the machine. Well, after restarting I
could
remove the emacsen-common package from the terminal and installed
emacs21 using FinkCommander without a glitch!!!
It's running but .... (I know, nothing is perfect!), when I opened
a .tex file
and tried to latex it, I received the message: latex command not found.
And I do have installed teTex with Fink...
Is there anything else I need to do?
Thanks once again for your help and time!
nancy
ps: regarding the problem with emacsen-common, I guess I'm still as
ignorant of the causes as I was these past couple of days...
On Sep, 20, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On 9/20/05, Nancy Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello again:
Thanks Alexander for your suggestions, unfortunately they did not
work.
I reinstall Tiger and reinstall Fink this morning. Later I used
FinkCommander
to install emacsen-common first and did not work. This is the
message I
received:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
emacsen-common
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 14.3kB of archives. After unpacking 65.5kB will be used.
Get:1 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/release/main
emacsen-common 1.4.13-2 [14.3kB]
Fetched 14.3kB in 1s (7182B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common.
(Reading database ... 4090 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking emacsen-common (from
.../emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.13-2) ...
emacs-package-install: Couldn't open
/sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at
/sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 36.
dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacsen-common
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Then I followed the suggestion of removing the package using:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common
and this is the error message I've got:
dream:~ sandler$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common
(Reading database ... 4111 files and directories currently
installed.)
Removing emacsen-common ...
emacs-package-remove: Couldn't open
/sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at
/sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove line 36.
dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
emacs-package-install: Couldn't open
/sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at
/sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 36.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacsen-common
Any ideas of what is going on????
Thanks a lot for any help! (and also for your time!)
Best,
nancy
Oops--thought "force-all" would work.
Check this thread out:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/4188
Basically what I told the original poster to do was manually create
/sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors via "sudo touch
/sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors".
Try doing that and then run "sudo dpkg --configure emacsen-common"
I don't recally exactly why this happens, though.
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/
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