Update Manager broken?

[matrix3D]

I believe I am experiencing the same problem the original poster
specified. Everytime there are updates, I get the notification icon in
the Gnome "taskbar" and Update Manager starts as it should. It displays
what updates are available to install but I usually click on the "Check"
button to see if there are any additional updates as well. However, no
matter if I click on the "Check" button or the "Install" button both do
the same thing: The "Examining System" window comes up and the bar
scrolls across and then nothing. Check doesn't download the package
headers from the servers as it should and Install simply doesn't
install anything. I ran "gksudo update-manager" from a terminal as
somebody suggested and, while I couldn't click on the Install button
since there are currently no updates to install, I received the
following in the console each time I clicked on the "Check" button
(three times):



$ gksudo update-manager

warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)

/usr/sbin/synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libvte.so.4:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/sbin/synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libvte.so.4:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/usr/sbin/synaptic: error while loading shared libraries: libvte.so.4:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory



I'm assuming this means there's a problem with libvte. I'm going to try
to uninstall/reinstall that package, if there is one available.



EDIT: I found the following in a different thread regarding Synaptic
being broken (same symptoms I was getting) and the following command
fixed the problem for me:



sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.9 /usr/lib/libvte.so.4


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