Hello,

I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:

ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
I can't find this package anywhere.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Nishita


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On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:

I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error
messages.

> ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
> emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
> I can't find this package anywhere.

Well, it's there: http://packages.debian.org/etch/emacsen-common

How does your sources.list look?

Sven


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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:55 +0530
"Nishita Desai" <nish.des@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:
>
> ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
> emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
> I can't find this package anywhere.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> Nishita
>

Try installing emacs22-gtk.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nishita Desai <nish.des@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: emacs not installable
To: Felipe Gallois <felipe@gallois.com.br>


On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Felipe Gallois <felipe@gallois.com.br> wrote:
> try emacs21 for the X version
> or emacs21-nox for the console one!

Thanks for your reply.

According to synaptic, 'emacs' is a meta-package which points to
emacs21. In any case, both these packages give me the error:
emacs21-nox:
Depends: emacs21-bin-common but it is not going to be installed

emacs21-bin-common gives the error:
emacs21-bin-common:
Depends: emacs21-common but it is not going to be installed

emacs21-common gives the error:
emacs21-common:
Depends: emacsen-common (>=1.4.10) but it is not installable

Nishita


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On 2008-08-21 21:15 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote:

> Try installing emacs22-gtk.

That package does not exist in Etch.

Sven


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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
> How does your sources.list look?

sources.list:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD
Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

Nishita


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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:20, Nishita Desai <nish.des@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:

> How does your sources.list look?



sources.list:



#

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD

Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD

Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main



# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib



Nishita





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just to make sure, have you tried aptitude (or apt-get) update?
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