From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Hodges Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using apt-utils Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:45:54 +0100 Organization: University of Warwick, UK Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87smahpjot.fsf@dugong.chemistry.nottingham.ac.uk> References: <200408201559.i7KFx97k076549@salador.ucs.mun.ca> Reply-To: Matt Hodges NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093038660 27856 80.91.224.253 (20 Aug 2004 21:51:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 20 23:50:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ByHHg-0006H8-00 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ByHM0-0006fy-PW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:55:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed3.jnfs.ja.net!feed2.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!warwick!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-10-4-4-147.in-addr.warwickpiazza.net Original-X-Trace: wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk 1093038424 29341 10.4.4.147 (20 Aug 2004 21:47:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@csv.warwick.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:47:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hTKkpNyI/VC416J/0EQm5cWH7gk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124840 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20189 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20189 >>>>> Sebastian Luque writes: > I'm trying to use apt-utils (from emacs-goodies.el) to handle my > packages. Going through the documentation, I tried: > M-x apt-utils-show-package > Emacs takes some time to do its job, and then gives me the error > "Wrong type argument: symbolp, (quote t)" Can you do M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET and send the backtrace for the error? Also, what version of the debian-el package do you have installed? Thanks, Matt