Matej Vela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > rich walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Cmail fails to install. >> >> It puts up the "byte-compiling" message, then complains about not >> being able to move *.elc files, and fails. > > I'm unable to reproduce this with emacs21 21.4a-6. Is it still a > problem for you?
sudo apt-get install --reinstall cmail Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1256 not upgraded. Need to get 369kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get: 1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main cmail 2.62-3 [369kB] Fetched 369kB in 2s (181kB/s) (Reading database ... 332989 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace cmail 2.62-3 (using .../archives/cmail_2.62-3_all.deb) ... remove/cmail: purging byte-compiled files for emacs21 Unpacking replacement cmail ... Setting up cmail (2.62-3) ... install/apel: Byte-compiling for emacs21 ... skipped. (already compiled) install/cmail: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21 mv: cannot stat `*.elc': No such file or directory emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/cmail emacs21 emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 2. dpkg: error processing cmail (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: cmail E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:FAangband012 2.6M : So it seems to still be a problem. # dpkg --status emacs21 Package: emacs21 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: editors Installed-Size: 5900 Maintainer: Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 21.4a-3 Replaces: emacs21-nox Provides: emacsen, editor, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader Depends: emacs21-bin-common (= 21.4a-3), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libjpeg62, libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.8rel-4), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libtiff4, libungif4g (>= 4.1.3), libx11-6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxext6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxmu6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxpm4 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxt6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), xaw3dg (>= 1.5+E-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) Conflicts: emacs21-nox, w3-el Description: The GNU Emacs editor GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | technical person | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] front-of-tshirt space to let 251 Liverpool Road | London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
