diff -ur update-notifier-0.119ubuntu1-orig/data/notify-reboot-required update-notifier-0.119ubuntu1/data/notify-reboot-required
--- update-notifier-0.119ubuntu1-orig/data/notify-reboot-required	2011-06-08 00:33:04.000000000 -0500
+++ update-notifier-0.119ubuntu1/data/notify-reboot-required	2012-04-02 10:56:14.485382816 -0500
@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 # a) it breaks if its not available
 # b) the string we have here does not need it (because it has no vars)
 eval_gettext() {
-    echo $(gettext "$1")
+    if [ -x /usr/bin/gettext ]; then
+        echo $(gettext "$1")
+    else
+        echo "$1"
+    fi
 }
 export TEXTDOMAIN=update-notifier
 export TEXTDOMAINDIR=/usr/share/locale