Re: [Fink-users] error during auctex/emacsen install

[Alexander H. <ha...@ld...>]

On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Joshua David Horner wrote:

> hey all
>
> reading a great article on LaTeX at 
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/03/latex.html  got me 
> really interested in trying it out. so i installed LaTeX via fink, and 
> it all worked fine. but i suppose i wanted some sort of x-11 
> interaction with it all, and from my limited knowledge, it appeared as 
> though 'auctex' is what i wanted. but this happened during that 
> install:
>
> ..................................................
> Setting up emacs20 (20.7-26) ...
> emacs-install emacs20
> emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20
> emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs20
> /sw/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common: line 44:  2468 
> Segmentation fault      ${FLAVOR} ${byte_compile_options} 
> /sw/etc/${FLAVOR}/site-start.d/00fink-vars.el 
> /sw/share/${FLAVOR}/site-lisp/fink-startup.el
> emacs-install: /sw/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common 
> emacs20 failed at /sw/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, 
> <TSORT> line 2.
> dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of auctex:
>  auctex depends on emacsen; however:
>   Package emacsen is not installed.
>   Package emacs20 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing auctex (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  emacs20
>  auctex
> E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> ..................................................
>
> how can i fix that? feel free to just point me to something to read if 
> this is a total newbie question too.
>
> thanks all!
>
> - josh
>
>
>

Try running these commands

sudo rm /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/seg_addr_table*
sudo /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/update-package-prebinding.pl -f

and then try to install emacs20 again.
--
Alexander K. Hansen
Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX