First of all, I am really sorry about behaving like an over smart. But hope you will be able to help me under the circumstance I am right now.

I was having some difficulty with emacs in my Ubuntu 12.04.2 installation. So I decided to reinstall everything from scratch. The steps I took are,

sudo apt-get autoremove emacs24

cd /usr/share

sudo rm -r emacs

sudo rm -r emacs24

Now whenever I try to install emacs, it tells me it can't find ispell,flyspell and debian-ispell and installation not completed, dpkg error. What can I do to fix it?

(Reading database ... 292802 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking emacs (from .../emacs_24.1+1-2~ppa1~precise1_all.deb) ...

Setting up emacs23 (23.3+1-1ubuntu9.1) ...

emacs-install emacs23

edit: This is the output i get, if anyone is interested

install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs23

>>Error occurred processing debian-ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el"))

>>Error occurred processing ispell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el"))

>>Error occurred processing flyspell.el: File error (("Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el"))

emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/dictionaries-common emacs23 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 4.

dpkg: error processing emacs23 (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs:

 emacs depends on emacs23 | emacs23-lucid | emacs23-nox; however:

  Package emacs23 is not configured yet.

  Package emacs23-lucid which provides emacs23 is not installed.

  Package emacs23-lucid is not installed.

  Package emacs23-nox is not installed.

dpkg: error processing emacs (--configure):

 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:

 emacs23

 emacs

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)