I *have* an ubuntu-desktop (6.10) installed, and it is *not* fixed there. I had to manually install libgnome2-perl (it wasn't even enough to install just libgnome2), so it seems there still are some depencies that are not set up properly.
After I installed libgnome2-perl everything worked just fine, I get all the proper alerts popping up whenever called for. -- libgnome2-perl should be made dependency of synaptic https://launchpad.net/bugs/12658 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs