[R-sig-Debian] ess 17.11-3 won't install on Ubuntu 16.04

[Eva Myers]

Hello,
Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
is failing with an error message.


***@kore:/home/eva# apt-get install ess
[...]
Install ess for emacs24
install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24
ERROR: install script from ess package failed
dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
ess
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Installing the previous version worked perfectly. The relevant
sources.list line is

deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/

What is causing this error and how can it be fixed?
Thanks,
Eva.

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
| Hello,
| Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
| is failing with an error message.

This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.

Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
(much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
to supress updates).

There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
these:

http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb

and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.

Dirk

| ***@kore:/home/eva# apt-get install ess
| [...]
| Install ess for emacs24
| install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24
| ERROR: install script from ess package failed
| dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
| subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
| Errors were encountered while processing:
| ess
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
|
|
| Installing the previous version worked perfectly. The relevant
| sources.list line is
|
| deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
|
| What is causing this error and how can it be fixed?
| Thanks,
| Eva.
|
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[Göran Broström]

Hi Dirk,

On 2018-08-20 17:43, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
> | Hello,
> | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
> | is failing with an error message.
>
> This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
> ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
>
> Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
> affected.

And 18.04. I get exactly the same error message as Eva.

> Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
> (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
> to supress updates).
>
> There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
> these:
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
>
> and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.

"Works for me" too.

Göran

> Dirk
>
> | ***@kore:/home/eva# apt-get install ess
> | [...]
> | Install ess for emacs24
> | install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24
> | ERROR: install script from ess package failed
> | dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
> | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> | ess
> | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> |
> |
> | Installing the previous version worked perfectly. The relevant
> | sources.list line is
> |
> | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
> |
> | What is causing this error and how can it be fixed?
> | Thanks,
> | Eva.
> |
> | _______________________________________________
> | R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> | R-SIG-***@r-project.org
> | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
>

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 August 2018 at 23:06, Göran Broström wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
|
| On 2018-08-20 17:43, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
| > | Hello,
| > | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
| > | is failing with an error message.
| >
| > This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
| > ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
| >
| > Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
| > affected.
|
| And 18.04. I get exactly the same error message as Eva.
|
| > Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
| > (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
| > to supress updates).
| >
| > There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
| > these:
| >
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| >
| > and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.
|
| "Works for me" too.

These are now in Debian's "experimental". If nothing creeps up I'll upload
17.11-5 to unstable soon.

Would be good to know if it works on 16.04 too. Does that have support for
elpa-* packages for Emacs?

Dirk

| Göran
|
| > Dirk
| >
| > | ***@kore:/home/eva# apt-get install ess
| > | [...]
| > | Install ess for emacs24
| > | install/ess: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs24
| > | ERROR: install script from ess package failed
| > | dpkg: error processing package ess (--configure):
| > | subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
| > | Errors were encountered while processing:
| > | ess
| > | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| > |
| > |
| > | Installing the previous version worked perfectly. The relevant
| > | sources.list line is
| > |
| > | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/
| > |
| > | What is causing this error and how can it be fixed?
| > | Thanks,
| > | Eva.
| > |
| > | _______________________________________________
| > | R-SIG-Debian mailing list
| > | R-SIG-***@r-project.org
| > | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
| >

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[Eva Myers]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:43:52AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
> | Hello,
> | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
> | is failing with an error message.
>
> This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
> ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
>
> Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
> affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
> (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
> to supress updates).
>
> There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
> these:
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
>
> and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.

Works for me on 16.04, thank you so much!
Eva.

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 August 2018 at 09:52, Eva Myers wrote:
| On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:43:52AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
| > | Hello,
| > | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
| > | is failing with an error message.
| >
| > This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
| > ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
| >
| > Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
| > affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
| > (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
| > to supress updates).
| >
| > There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
| > these:
| >
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| >
| > and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.
|
| Works for me on 16.04, thank you so much!

That's good to know. With that I will probably release this as 17.11-5 in
Debian, and it should find its way to the CRAN-mirrors too.

Dirk

| Eva.

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[Merkle, Edgar C.]

> On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
> | Hello,
> | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
> | is failing with an error message.
>
> This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
> ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
>
> Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
> affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
> (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
> to supress updates).
>
> There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
> these:
>
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
>
> and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.

FWIW, I was able to fix this error in Ubuntu 16.04 by upgrading emacs to version 26.1. (I was previously using the version on the ubuntu repos, which was emacs 24.xx.)

Best,
Ed

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 August 2018 at 13:12, Merkle, Edgar C. wrote:
|
| > On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
| > | Hello,
| > | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
| > | is failing with an error message.
| >
| > This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
| > ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
| >
| > Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
| > affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
| > (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
| > to supress updates).
| >
| > There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
| > these:
| >
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
| >
| > and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04. Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.
|
| FWIW, I was able to fix this error in Ubuntu 16.04 by upgrading emacs to version 26.1. (I was previously using the version on the ubuntu repos, which was emacs 24.xx.)

That's what started all this -- a user of Emacs 26 in Debian unstable had a
problem.

Generally speaking I would recommend upgrading to 18.04 though.

Dirk

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