Subject: bug#17396: Bugs with emacs3 and emacs4 on Kubuntu 14.04

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 14:07:31 -0400

Daniel Moyne wrote:

> Each time I install soething on my kubuntu 14.04 distibution I collect this as error 
> messages:
> emacs23 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 
> emacs24 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 
> apel dependency problems - leaving unconfigured bbdb dependency problems - 
> leaving unconfigured bitmap-mule dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> debian-el dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg-dev-el dependency 
> problems - leaving unconfigured devscripts-el dependency problems - leaving 
> unconfigured ess dependency problems - leaving unconfigured gnuserv dependency 
> problems - leaving unconfigured mhc dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 
> select-xface dependency problems - leaving unconfigured vm dependency problems 
> - leaving unconfigured w3m-el dependency problems - leaving unconfigured x-face-el 
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured flim dependency problems - leaving 
> unconfigured mu-cite dependency problems - leaving unconfigured 

This is a problem with some of the add-on elisp packages you have
installed. It is not a bug in Emacs. Debian's installation method (which
Ubuntu inherits) causes these failures if there is a problem compiling
an add-on Emacs package.

If I were you, I would

sudo apt-get remove apel

etc until you get things working again.