Auctex in 12.04 ignores Emacs 24

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I just installed Emacs 24 (emacs24 24.1+1-2ubuntu3) in Ubuntu 12.04 but it does not seem to work with Auctex (the current version is 11.86-2ubuntu2). My .emacs file contains a line loading Auctex, so when starting the editor for the first time I received an error it cannot find auctex.el. Indeed /usr/share/emacs/24.1/site-lisp does not contain any trace of auctex. I thought it could be an issue with auctex being installed before emacs 24, so I reinstalled it. The installation log reads as follows:

Setting up auctex (11.86-2ubuntu2) ...
Install auctex for emacs
Install auctex for emacs23
install/auctex: Setting up for emacs23 (log file: /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/auctex//CompilationLog)... done.
update-auctex-elisp[20829]: Further output will appear in: /var/log/auctex-emacs23.log.
Install auctex for emacs24
install/auctex: Ignoring emacsen flavor: "emacs24".

Is the current version of auctex incompatible with emacs24? Alternatively, is there a way to get around this issue?

You need to edit the file

/usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex

At the end of the file, look for this chunk:

    case "${FLAVOR}" in
       emacs) :;;
       emacs2[123]|emacs-snapshot)
              do_clean_old_cruft ${FLAVOR}
         do_install ${FLAVOR}
              do_auto ${FLAVOR};;
       *) echo >&2 "install/auctex:" \
           "Ignoring emacsen flavor: \"${FLAVOR}\"."
    esac

Change "123" to "1234" and then sudo dpkg-reconfigure auctex.

I stumbled across this online. I wish I could give credit but have forgotten the source.

As a workaround, you may install AucTeX locally from the Emacs Lisp Package Archive (ELPA):

M-x package-install auctex

Auctex in 12.04 ignores Emacs 24

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