unstable: gnome-apt / menu package causes problem

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

When I do a dist-upgrade, apt complains about gnome-apt being in a bad
state and suggests that I reinstall it.  It cannot be removed at the
moment as a result of the bad state. But I can't install it either.

The problem might be something else: 

update-menus: relocation error: update-menus: symbol _ZNSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE4initEPSt15basic_streambufIcS1_E, version GLIBCPP_3.2 not defined in file libstdc++.so.5 with link time reference

It has been like this for quite a few days now and a daily apt-get
update and apt-get dist-upgrade did not correct anything, but failed
every time.

Any remedy?

Regards.
Johann
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