Ubuntu install problem

[Vaughn Treude]

(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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