I have fixed this issue after some experimenting. I'd tried various 'apt-get purge' and uninstall approaches, but whenever I tried the reinstall I got the above error message.
Eventually I tried a purge and then removed *all* mentions of emacs in /etc/ and /var/. After this, I tried (one more time) and I now have a working Emacs, with AUCTeX installed properly, which is what I was after. -- attempt to reinstall emacs fails - byte compilation for emacs22 failed! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427460 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
