update-apt-xapian-index crashed with ImportError in <module>()

[Arun Mohan]

Binary package hint: apt-xapian-index

always shows this error message when using synaptic.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apt-xapian-index 0.38ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-14.20-generic 2.6.35
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 11 07:34:24 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100630.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index --update -q
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_SG.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index', '--update', '-q']
SourcePackage: apt-xapian-index
Title: update-apt-xapian-index crashed with ImportError in <module>()
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
     from ._gi import _API
 ImportError: libgirepository-1.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
UserGroups:

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