synaptic still bonkers

[wayward4now]

On 09/18/2011 07:14 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> wayward4now wrote:
>> Is there some sort of system install script that re-installs
>> synaptic, after installation, to have these scripts back?
> apt-get install --reinstall synaptic
>
> or, more forcefully
>
> apt-get remove --purge synaptic
> apt-get install synaptic
>
> might do it, I suppose. You will lose any synaptic-specific
> configuration with the second (though not apt- or dpkg- wide like
> sources.list or pinning)
>
> This sounds like it's some sort of a problem you're already aware of by
> the way you describe it; - is there a bug filed for it? I've not seen
> this, but I don't use synaptic. How can I reproduce this when I'm back
> on my Ubuntu box?
>
> I might not be able to fix it (likely) but I'm intrigued.
Well, what you have to do is a fresh install of Mint11, then decide it's 
not for you, so you start ripping out various mint packages and repos, 
to get down to the basic natty that was underneath. So far, nothing 
major has blown up, except for where-ever synaptic thinks it's scripts 
are installed to.

Basically, I need what stores or restores Natty to it's pristine initial 
package database(?)/script condition when a saner person installs Natty 
to begin with. I've already removed/installed synaptic more than once. 
~or~ maybe it's an apt-get package that generates the script synaptic is 
looking for?

Gonna go witch-hunt around to see what there is in apt-get land that 
might init it. This process actually IS intriguing! I'm learning some 
stuff. Thanks Avi. :) Ric