Hello era. Thanks.
now it seems to be working. Josy Here is what I have done: michael@michael-desktop:~$ COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l xem* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================================================================== un xemacs-support <none> (no description available) un xemacs21 <none> (no description available) rc xemacs21-support 21.4.22-3.2ubuntu2 all highly customizable text editor -- architecture independent support un xemacs21-supportel <none> (no description available) michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo ls -alg /var/lib/dpkg/info/em*prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:09 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-bin-common.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 221 Sep 22 20:16 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23-common.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:09 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs23.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 341 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24-bin-common.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 221 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24-common.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 345 Sep 22 20:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs24.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 294 Jun 29 17:02 /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacsen-common.prerm michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24 emacsen-common michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq emacs23-bin-common emacs23-common emacs23 emacs24-bin-common emacs24-common emacs24 emacsen-common michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of erlang-mode: erlang-mode depends on emacsen-common (>= 1.4.14); however: Package emacsen-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing erlang-mode (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: erlang-mode michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo ls -alg /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang*prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 2930 Sep 20 15:32 /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang-base.prerm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 217 Sep 20 15:45 /var/lib/dpkg/info/erlang-mode.prerm michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq erlang-mode (Reading database ... 334234 files and directories currently installed.) Removing erlang-mode ... michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-remove-reinstreq erlang-mode (Reading database ... 334216 files and directories currently installed.) Removing erlang-mode ... Purging configuration files for erlang-mode ... michael@michael-desktop:~$ michael@michael-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a michael@michael-desktop:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069209 Title: emacs depencies broken after upgrade to ubunutu 12.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs23/+bug/1069209/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
