I was unable to recreate this given the situation described: $ sudo mv /root/.synaptic /root/synaptic [ 3:56PM 10261 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~/Documents/gtd ] $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libc-bin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-4.3.0-7 linux-headers-4.3.0-7-generic linux-image-4.3.0-7-generic linux-image-extra-4.3.0-7-generic linux-tools-4.3.0-7 linux-tools-4.3.0-7-generic Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 207 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,172 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Sorry, your system lacks support for the snapshot feature (Reading database ... 909633 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libc-bin_2.21-0ubuntu5_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) over (2.21-0ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
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