How to Repair Synaptic and Add/Remove Programs ?

[Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com]

>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
>
>

Did you try typing this in a terminal:
    sudo apt-get -remove kio-umountwrapper

You can also use Adept, it does exactly what Synaptic does. 
You can download the deb file from your browser at 
http://91.189.88.45/ubuntu/pool/main/a/adept/
and install the files manually.  (sudo dpkg -i <file name>)
There are three of them but you probably just need the adept-manager 
package.


Alan
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