Comment 8 for bug 237662

Synaptic didn't respond at all when I try to launch it by clicking on it , and it still doesn't. But some nice things happened when I launched it from the terminal. (Again, thanks for the hint.) I entered in the terminal:
"sudo synaptic --upgrade-mode" and got a dialog box listing nine files -- perhaps the same ones appearing when I clicked on the pesky icon (which is no longer is pestering me). This elicted a dialog box containing the nine files, some for installation, and others to download. I clicked on "MARK" and again on (something else ?). Apparently, synaptic downloaded and installed those programs. So things have improved. I don't know what the future will bring but I expect that I will no longer get pesky icons on the tool bar telling me to upgrade. Rather, I must remember to invoke synaptic in order to get upgrades. I can live with that. I will keep you posted on this, or any other of your "hints."