[Bug 1503052] Re: aptitude does not start - symbol lookup error

[matsonfamily]

same thing on 2 15.10 (XFCE and a cli-only) environments.  Libept is
libept1.4.16 v 1.0.13ubuntu1.  is libept just missing the symbol?

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Title:
  aptitude does not start - symbol lookup error

Status in aptitude package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Each time I try to start aptitude I see the following:

  paul at N7110:~> sudo aptitude
  [sudo] password for paul: 
  aptitude: symbol lookup error: aptitude: undefined symbol: _ZNK13Configuration10FindVectorB5cxx11EPKc

  Seen on two similarly configured PC since last update. This error
  makes aptitude unusable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: aptitude 0.7-1ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-14.16-generic 4.2.2
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-14-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Oct  5 22:42:24 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-17 (80 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150717)
  SourcePackage: aptitude
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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