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

[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
>   
> | root using 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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