Slime and Debian

[Lorenzo Isella]

Dear All,
I do not know whether I should post this here or on some Debian mailing list.
I am running Debian testing for the amd64 architecture. When I tried
installing slime for emacs (from standard repositories) I got:

$ sudo apt-get remove slime
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cl-swank ttf-dustin djvulibre-desktop libdns43 cups-driver-gutenprint
  svgalibg1 libisc44
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  slime
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 2269kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 226643 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing slime ...
remove/slime: purging byte-compiled files for emacs21
remove/slime: purging byte-compiled files for emacs22
remove/slime: purging byte-compiled files for xemacs21
iselllo@erlive153:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
iselllo@erlive153:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  cl-swank ttf-dustin djvulibre-desktop libdns43 cups-driver-gutenprint
  svgalibg1 libisc44
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cl-swank cups-driver-gutenprint djvulibre-desktop libdns43 libisc44
  svgalibg1 ttf-dustin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 6459kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 226589 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing cl-swank ...
Removing cups-driver-gutenprint ...
Reloading Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Removing djvulibre-desktop ...
Removing libdns43 ...
Removing libisc44 ...
Removing svgalibg1 ...
Removing ttf-dustin ...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dustin
No CIDSupplement specified for Shinmun-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for JamoNovel-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for UMingCN, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Graphic-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for JamoDotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Pilgi-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Penheulim-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Graphic-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Gungseo-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Batang-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Pilgi-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Bom-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for BousungEG-Light-GB, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Bold, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for UKaiCN, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Headline-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Pen-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for JamoSora-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Taza-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Dotum-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Gulim-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for Yetgul-Regular, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for GBZenKai-Medium, defaulting to 0.
No CIDSupplement specified for JamoBatang-Regular, defaulting to 0.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
iselllo@erlive153:~$ clear

iselllo@erlive153:~$ sudo apt-get install slime
[sudo] password for iselllo:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cl-swank
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cl-swank slime
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1385kB of archives.
After this operation, 4125kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package cl-swank.
(Reading database ... 226474 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking cl-swank (from .../cl-swank_1%3a20090217-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package slime.
Unpacking slime (from .../slime_1%3a20090217-1_all.deb) ...
Setting up cl-swank (1:20090217-1) ...
Setting up slime (1:20090217-1) ...
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs21
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs21
Loading 00debian-vars (source)...
Loading 49url (source)...
Loading 50a2ps (source)...
Error while loading 50a2ps
Loading 50auctex (source)...
Loading auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.4/x86_64-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1-x.el (source)...
Loading preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading 50cedet-common (source)...
Loading 50cmake (source)...
Loading 50cmake-data (source)...
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 50eieio (source)...
Loading 50emacs-goodies-el (source)...
Loading 50ess (source)...
Loading 50maxima-emacs (source)...
Loading 50post-el (source)...
Loading 50psvn (source)...
Loading 50pymacs (source)...
Loading 50python-mode (source)...
Loading 50slime (source)...
Error while loading 50slime
Loading 50w3 (source)...
Loading 51debian-el (source)...
Loading 51ede (source)...
Loading 51speedbar (source)...
Loading 52semantic (source)...
Loading 53cedet-contrib (source)...
Loading 53cogre (source)...
Loading 55ecb (source)...
"/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-path'
Setting up cedet...
Setting up cedet...done
Setting up cogre...
Setting up cogre...done
Setting up ede...
Setting up ede...done
Setting up eieio...
Setting up eieio...done
Setting up semantic...
Setting up semantic...done
Setting up speedbar...
Setting up speedbar...done
Setting up cedet-contrib...
Setting up cedet-contrib...done
Wrote /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
Done
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/50a2ps.el (source)...
Error while loading 50a2ps
Loading /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs/22.2/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cedet-common.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.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/50eieio.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50ess.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50maxima-emacs.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50post-el.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pymacs.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-mode.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50slime.el (source)...
Error while loading 50slime
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51debian-el.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51ede.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51speedbar.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/52semantic.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/53cedet-contrib.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/53cogre.el (source)...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/55ecb.el (source)...
"/usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-path'
Setting up cedet...
Setting up cedet...done
Setting up cogre...
Setting up cogre...done
Setting up ede...
!! File eieio uses old-style backquotes !!
Setting up ede...done
Setting up eieio...
Setting up eieio...done
Setting up semantic...
Setting up semantic...done
Setting up speedbar...
Setting up speedbar...done
Setting up cedet-contrib...
Setting up cedet-contrib...done
Wrote /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor xemacs21
emacsen-common: byte-compiling for xemacs21
Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup...
Loading 00debian...
Loading site-start...
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 50a2ps...
Error while loading 50a2ps
Loading 50cedet-common...
Loading 50cmake...
Loading 50cmake-data...
Loading 50dictionaries-common...
Loading debian-ispell...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el...
Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el...
Loading 50eieio...
Loading 50emacs-goodies-el...
Loading 50ess...
Loading 50maxima-emacs...
Loading 50post-el...
Loading 50psvn...
Loading 50pymacs...
Loading 50python-mode...
Loading 50slime...
Error while loading 50slime
Loading 51debian-el...
Loading 51ede...
Loading 51speedbar...
Loading 52semantic...
Loading 53cedet-contrib...
Loading 53cogre...
Loading 55ecb...
"/usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-path'
Setting up cedet...
Setting up cedet...done
Setting up cogre...
Setting up cogre...done
Setting up ede...
Setting up ede...done
Setting up eieio...
Setting up eieio...done
Setting up semantic...
Setting up semantic...done
Setting up speedbar...
Setting up speedbar...done
Setting up cedet-contrib...
Setting up cedet-contrib...done
Compiling /etc/xemacs21/site-start.d/00debian-vars.el...
Wrote /etc/xemacs21/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc
Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/debian-startup.el...
Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc
Done
install/slime: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading 49url (source)...
Loading 50a2ps (source)...
Error while loading 50a2ps
Loading 50auctex (source)...
Loading auctex.el (source)...
Loading /usr/lib/emacs/21.4/x86_64-linux-gnu/fns-21.4.1-x.el (source)...
Loading preview-latex.el (source)...
Loading 50cedet-common (source)...
Loading 50cmake (source)...
Loading 50cmake-data (source)...
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 50eieio (source)...
Loading 50emacs-goodies-el (source)...
Loading 50ess (source)...
Loading 50maxima-emacs (source)...
Loading 50post-el (source)...
Loading 50psvn (source)...
Loading 50pymacs (source)...
Loading 50python-mode (source)...
Loading 50slime (source)...
Loading /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/slime/slime-autoloads (source)...
Loading 50w3 (source)...
Loading 51debian-el (source)...
Loading 51ede (source)...
Loading 51speedbar (source)...
Loading 52semantic (source)...
Loading 53cedet-contrib (source)...
Loading 53cogre (source)...
Loading 55ecb (source)...
"/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/cedet-common/" added to `load-path'
Setting up cedet...
Setting up cedet...done
Setting up cogre...
Setting up cogre...done
Setting up ede...
Setting up ede...done
Setting up eieio...
Setting up eieio...done
Setting up semantic...
Setting up semantic...done
Setting up speedbar...
Setting up speedbar...done
Setting up cedet-contrib...
Setting up cedet-contrib...done
Cannot open load file: tramp
emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/slime
emacs21 emacs21 emacs22 xemacs21 failed at
/usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 2.
dpkg: error processing slime (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
 slime
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Is anyone else on this list experiencing the same problem? Any suggestions?
Kind Regards

Lorenzo



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