Dear all:

I found the following posting in the archive:

Re: [Fink-beginners] installing emacs21 in Tiger
Alexander K. Hansen
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:30:34 -0700

On 9/19/05, Nancy Sandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I've updated my G5 to Tiger recently and installed Fink without any problem
> After installing teTex, I tried to install emacs21 but it did not work and
> the message
> was that the emacsen-common package was not configure.
> I tried to install the emacsen-common package but it gave me an error
> message
> again.
> I tried to remove both packages to start all over and this is the message
> I've received:
>
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> Sorry, emacs21 is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> 2 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.13-2) ...
> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.postinst: line 45:
> /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install: No such file
> or directory
> dpkg: error processing emacsen-common (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs21:
>  emacs21 depends on emacsen-common; however:
>   Package emacsen-common is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  emacsen-common
>  emacs21
> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Is there anyone who could help me?
> I really appreciate your time!
> nancy

I recall having some fairly sticky problems with this, myself on my
Panther-> Tiger updgrade.  Try the following:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacs21
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common

Then try installing _just_ emacsen-common and report back to the list
if there's an error message.

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Unfortunately, I have the same problem.
When I run the command

sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common

I get the following (error) message:

Lobo:/Users/mwolf root# sudo dpkg --remove --force-all emacsen-common
(Reading database ... 25781 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

So not sure how to proceed from here. Any pointers would be
greatly appreciated. Also, feel free to mail me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Thanks much & Happy New Year,
Michael


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