How to Repair Synaptic and Add/Remove Programs ?

[Derek Broughton]

Alan_Dacey at horizonblue.com wrote:

> 
> 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.

Since the OP specifically mentioned dpkg, I guess he already knows that they
will in fact do exactly what Synaptic did - barf.  The problem is, as he
correctly noted, in the script that dpkg runs.  Unfortunately, that doesn't
go away next time you use any package tool. 
-- 
derek