Synaptic disappeared after an upgrade to hoary (Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3)

[Eric Dunbar]

Hello all: I just upgraded my system to Hoary using Synaptic, and,
well, umm, Synaptic has disappear from my system completely. Otherwise
it seems to be working alright (fonts don't exactly look great but I
guess this is an alpha release after all)... FireFox 1.0 (20041116),
Evolution 2.1.1, OpenOffice 1.1.3 (& it looks like crap... gotta do
install that package I saw someone talking about)).

Anyway, I figured it was just some little problem and that doing an
apt-get manually would fix it (I've never done apt-get before... I
figured the syntax would be similar to yum ;-)... This is the
output... (& I filed a bug report ;-)

ericd at UbuntuOnPismo:~ $ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3
E: Broken packages
ericd at UbuntuOnPismo:~ $