Hello, I am trying to install emacs21 on a powerbook G4 and get the following error message:
The following package will be installed or updated: emacs21 The following additional package will be installed: emacsen-common Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (Reading database ... 36693 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace emacsen-common 1.4.13-2 (using .../emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... emacs-package-remove: Couldn't open /sw/var/lib/emacsen-common/installed-flavors at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-remove line 36. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... 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 /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install): subprocess new 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: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/emacsen-common_1.4.13-2_darwin-powerpc.deb ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Failed: can't install package emacsen-common-1.4.13-2 I don't understand this error message. Has anyone seen this? Did I do something wrong? Is there something I can do to fix this problem? Thanks already, nick ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
