Yes, it was really not present on my machine and required installing. Older installation doing upgrades rather then blowing it away and reinstalling. As far as I can tell, neither apt-get nor aptitude ever noticed a missing essential/required package that appeared after the initial install. Perhaps this is really a package management bug?
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