avida Unable to open file 'environment.cfg' : ?? Unknown Error?

[xteejx]

When starting avida-viewer from terminal (no menu entry), I get this:

$ avida-viewer
Instruction Library has 4 instructions.
<cHardware4Stack::initInstLib> debug: important post-init values:
 --- GetSize(): 36
 --- GetNumNops(): 4
 --- GetName(last): Inject

<cHardwareCPU::initInstLib> Instruction Library has 3 instructions.
<cHardwareCPU::initInstLib> debug: important post-init values:
 --- GetSize(): 181
 --- GetNumNops(): 3
 --- GetName(last): skip

Avida version 2.0b7
Copyright (C) 1993-2003 California Institute of Technology.

Avida comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See file COPYING for details.

Random Seed: 0 -> 142910941
ENV: Loading file 'environment.cfg'.
Unable to open file 'environment.cfg' : ?? Unknown Error??
Error: Failed to load environment 'environment.cfg'.
Unable to load environment... aborting!

avida-base and avida-viewer are installed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: avida-viewer 2.0b7-4.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-1.1-generic 2.6.35-rc1
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-1-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c4ec36026e45b9e7d8a473844878a77c
CheckboxSystem: 2e4ab5fb96eeb897d439b8ef1239668e
Date: Wed Jun 9 16:51:00 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: avida

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This has been forwarded to Debian, so I have marked it Triaged.