Ubuntu install problem

(Excuse the weird format, I forwarded the message that bounced earlier.)

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:46, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm glad to report that I finally got that troublesome machine running
> (it was indeed the CPU, as someone suggested) and I got Ubuntu installed
> and running on it. I'm a bit new to the Debian side of the Linux world,
> and I'm having a little trouble with this apt-get stuff.
>
> Specifically:
> I need some version of emacs!!! (I dislike vi intensely - yes I do
> know how to use it- and nano reminds me too much of WordStar.) I
> finally figured out that I needed to apt-get a packaged called
> xemacs21-gnome-mule. This took a long time and eventually it ran into
> trouble with a package called gdk-imlib (something about an MD5SUM
> mismatch.) This sounds like it's related to images, something I could
> probably do without to get emacs. So now I've got a boatload of files
> in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory, but no blessed xemacs
> executable. I figured that maybe I need to do a dpkg -i xemacs21, but I
> get the following error:
>
> dpkg: error processing xemacs21 (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xemacs21
>
> So what am I missing? If I must get that gdk-imlib file, is there a way
> I can fetch it from somewhere else?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Vaughn
>
>

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