emacs addons packages don't install

I tried to update to gutsy versions of emacs and emacs-snapshot. Now none of the addons packages like muse, bbdb or remember will install. The strange thing is that the messages say emacs-gtk has not been installed but I can run emacs using the gtk toolkit fine. I can't install other packages manually ie in my own site-lisp as they don't compile because there is not emacs on the system. I can compile single elisp files from the running instance of emacs, but can't use configure scripts or make.

shelagh@pandora:~/bbdb-2.35$ ./configure
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for grep... /bin/grep
checking for my keys... not found
Damn! I'm locked outside :-(
checking for gtar... no
checking for tar... tar
checking that tar is GNU tar... yes
checking for gzip... gzip
checking for makeinfo... makeinfo
checking for texi2dvi... texi2dvi
checking for etags... etags
checking for emacs... no
checking for xemacs... no
configure: error: *** No Emacs program found.

 and from apt-get

shelagh@pandora:~/bbdb-2.35$ sudo apt-get install bbdb
[sudo] password for shelagh:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  vm w3-el-e21 gnuserv gnus t-gnus
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bbdb
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 139 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed. #these are probably the previously tried to be installed emacs packages
Need to get 0B/445kB of archives.
After unpacking 1532kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package bbdb.
(Reading database ... 380739 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bbdb (from .../bbdb_2.35.cvs20060204-1.1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Setting up emacs-snapshot (1:20070915-2~etch1) ...
Byte-compiling add-on packages, please wait... failed.

!! Byte-compilation for emacs-snapshot failed!
!! This indicates a bug in one of the add-on packages
!! installed on your system, or a bug in Emacs itself.
!! Please file a bug report against emacs-snapshot
!! and attach the file /tmp/emacs-snapshot.u10901
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up emacs21 (21.4a+1-5ubuntu3) ...
emacs-install emacs21
install/a2ps: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs21
cd: 34: can't cd to /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/a2ps
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/a2ps emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28, <TSORT> line 7.
dpkg: error processing emacs21 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of emacs-snapshot-gtk:
 emacs-snapshot-gtk depends on emacs-snapshot; however:
  Package emacs-snapshot is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing emacs-snapshot-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bbdb:
 bbdb depends on emacs22 | emacs21 | emacsen; however:
  Package emacs22 is not installed.
  Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacs22 is not installed.
  Package emacs21 is not configured yet.
  Package emacsen is not installed.
  Package emacs21 which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs-snapshot which provides emacsen is not configured yet.
  Package emacs22-gtk which provides emacsen is not installed.
dpkg: error processing bbdb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 emacs-snapshot
 emacs21
 emacs-snapshot-gtk
 bbdb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Actually this last set of messages is the most informative yet. I have over the past few days purged all forms of emacs and tried to reinstall. I can use what does install but I like auctex muse and friends. I can't even install them manually.

I hope I've given enough info.