-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/12/08 20:30, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Using unstable distribution installing bsdgames and emacs does not work > completely successfully. It's either one package or the other but not > both on the same machine. Probably both packages dependencies need > updating on the debian repositories so that whenever one is installed it > automatically uninstalls the other package. dpkg can't get a lock on > /var/lock/dpkg/ when you try to install both of these packages and this > happens in the install phase when dictionaries-common gets contacted and > asked to do some work.
Please paste the exact command used, plus error message. Works for me... # apt-get install bsdgames emacs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacsen-common Suggested packages: emacs22-common-non-dfsg emacs22-el The following NEW packages will be installed: bsdgames emacs emacs22 emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacsen-common 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 443 not upgraded. Need to get 17.3MB/18.3MB of archives. After this operation, 63.6MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main emacsen-common 1.4.17 [17.6kB] Get:2 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main emacs22-common 22.2+1-1 [14.5MB] 48% [2 emacs22-common 8323836/14.5MB 57%] 50% [2 emacs22-common 8734684/14.5MB 60%] 52% [2 emacs22-common 9139980/14.5MB 62%] Get:3 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main emacs22-bin-common 22.2+1-1 [161kB] Get:4 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main emacs22 22.2+1-1 [2585kB] Get:5 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main emacs 22.2+1-1 [19.0kB] Fetched 17.3MB in 27s (624kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Selecting previously deselected package bsdgames. (Reading database ... 240401 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking bsdgames (from .../bsdgames_2.17-14_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacsen-common. Unpacking emacsen-common (from .../emacsen-common_1.4.17_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-common. Unpacking emacs22-common (from .../emacs22-common_22.2+1-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacs22-bin-common. Unpacking emacs22-bin-common (from .../emacs22-bin-common_22.2+1-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacs22. Unpacking emacs22 (from .../emacs22_22.2+1-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacs. Unpacking emacs (from .../emacs_22.2+1-1_all.deb) ... Setting up bsdgames (2.17-14) ... Setting up emacsen-common (1.4.17) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs Setting up emacs22-common (22.2+1-1) ... Setting up emacs22-bin-common (22.2+1-1) ... Setting up emacs22 (22.2+1-1) ... emacs-install emacs22 install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs22 Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.elc emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs22 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22 Loading /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)... Loading debian-ispell... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)... Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)... Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)... Wrote /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc Setting up emacs (22.2+1-1) ... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIAWhCS9HxQb37XmcRArJ3AJ9x2N/PB9RTniW3RHRGDl0ZldWFgQCfQnmN 602I6QWeegild8lFTqhaNBA= =6Sa/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
