Bug#650239: Hello?

[Pa Blum <prr.4702@gmail.com>]

Are you guys going to help me or ain't you?  

For some reason during installation the "configure the package manager" is just skipped, so Synaptic can't work, Chrome can't install, and updates are either not found or disastrous.  The file libcard3. (without a hyphenated addition to the filename) is not present, among others.  How do I initiate configuring the package manager?

I repeat: Are you guys going to help me or ain't you?

PaB