Add/Remove Applications freezes on opening

[Catin Dehat]

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I'm not familiar with the meaning if "Packages", so i'm clueless which to select. My set-up: distribution is 9.04. When I open Add/Remove Applications, it NEARLY EVERY TIME, freezes. The only action that works is to force a quit. This problem did not occur with the previous distribution. Also, I have had to re-install 9.04 at least four times because of "something" that I thought the only solution was to re-install. There have been no changes to my hardware, so, unless my hardware is deteriorating, I've concluded it's a software problem.