Utilities apparently missing from Ubuntu15.10

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2015 at 12:12, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/10/2015, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 October 2015 at 09:38, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Synaptic did not install using apt-get, due to unmet dependencies
>>
>> That is a surprising bug which should be reported.  I don't suppose
>> you kept a record of the output.  Unfortunately to late to easily
>> repeat the exercise as you have now installed it anyway.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Since it is said to be a bug that should be reported....
>
> Would some log file exist, that would have retained the output, that
> would allow me to retrieve the output, to forward on to the relevant
> people?

Probably, not sure exactly what though.  Can you tell us exactly the
command you entered (in the terminal if you press up arrow it shows
you previous commands so you may be able to get  back to it like
that).  Preferably copy/paste it from the terminal.  If you run it
again, what does it say?

Colin