It's true--editing /etc/default/apport such that enabled=1 allows apport to be installed. Since there had been messages that apport-gtk was broken because of apport's problem, I reinstalled it with synaptic and set the /etc/default/apport file back to enabled=0
Thanks much, David.
It's true--editing /etc/default/apport such that enabled=1 allows apport to be installed. Since there had been messages that apport-gtk was broken because of apport's problem, I reinstalled it with synaptic and set the /etc/default/apport file back to enabled=0