How to Repair Synaptic and Add/Remove Programs ?

[NoOp]

On 09/10/2008 11:48 AM, Young wrote:
> Synaptic is stuck with this:
> kio-umountwrapper will be removed
> 
> Because it is stuck it cannot install any program.
> 
> Error message:
> E: kio-umountwrapper: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit
> status 2
> 
> 
> Also Add/Remove will not work. It allows you to find a program, but once
> you click on it, the spinner spins forever, and the only way out is to
> cancel.
> 
> How can this package be removed from Synaptic? or is there a different
> way to fix this?
> 
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 

Seems to be a bug:
http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bkio-umountwrapper
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kio-umountwrapper/+bug/186729