Every single time I install a package from Synapic Package Manager in Ubuntu 6.06, it gives me this error: Code: E: emacs21: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: cedet-common: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured E: eieio: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured E: speedbar: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured So far programs have worked even after that error, but should I be worried about this at all? and if so how can it be fixed? Edit: I have also tried searching Synaptic for each one of those, installed a few things but they still show up.
I tried that and the error still comes up in synaptic, it also comes up in the terminal, heres what came up when I tried that. Code: rjcube@rjcube-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 4 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-3ubuntu2) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/cedet-common: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21 Loading 00debian-vars... No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... Loading 50dictionaries-common (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 50festival (source)... Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-autogen.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-compat.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-edebug.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-loaddefs.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/cedet-load.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/ezimage.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/fame.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/inversion.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/mode-local.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/pprint.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/sformat.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/working.elc Done install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs21 Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.elc Done emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs21 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs21 Loading 00debian-vars (source)... No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... Loading 50dictionaries-common (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 50festival (source)... Wrote /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc Done install/speedbar: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21 Loading 00debian-vars... No /etc/mailname. Reverting to default... Loading 50dictionaries-common (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 50festival (source)... Source file `/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/dframe.el' newer than byte-compiled file Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/bigclock.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/dframe.elc While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/rpm.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-ant.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-gud.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-html.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-image.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-info.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-rmail.elc While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-texinfo.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/sb-w3.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/speedbar.el: !! Wrong type argument ((stringp nil)) Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/speedbar-loaddefs.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/speedbar/speedbar-load.elc Done emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/speedbar emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 5. dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cedet-common: cedet-common depends on emacs21 | emacsen; however: Package emacs21 is not configured yet. Package emacsen is not installed. Package emacs21 which provides emacsen is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing cedet-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eieio: eieio depends on emacs21 | emacsen; however: Package emacs21 is not configured yet. Package emacsen is not installed. Package emacs21 which provides emacsen is not configured yet. eieio depends on cedet-common; however: Package cedet-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing eieio (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of speedbar: speedbar depends on cedet-common; however: Package cedet-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing speedbar (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: emacs21 cedet-common eieio speedbar E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)