Balbir Thomas wrote: > Hi, > emacs20 seems to be broken in unstable . It can't be purged . Gives the error > : > > Removing emacs20 ... > emacs-remove emacs20 > remove/ada-mode: Purging byte-compiled files for flavour emacs20 > rmdir: `/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/ada-mode': No such file or directory > remove/liece: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs20 ... done. > remove/flim: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs20 ... done. > remove/cmail: purging byte-compiled files for emacs20 > remove/bitmap-mule: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs20 ... done. > remove/apel: Handling removal of emacsen flavor emacs20 ... done. > remove/auctex: Removing for emacs20... rmdir: `/usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/a > uctex//style': No such file or directory > emacs-remove: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/auctex emacs20 emacs19 > xemacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 28.
It's failing in file /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/remove/auctex presumably because there's no directory /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/auctex/style. As root, simply make that directory and try again (or comment out the "rm" line in the offending file). Peter
