habu, I will have another look at that wiki and try again.
Ralph, thanks for the very detailed reply. However, I did go to the wiki page to follow those instructions and attempted to follow yours as well, which failed miserably.
For gtk-glade-2, which later error messages said I needed:
(synaptic:5287): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
The gtk frontend needs a working python-gtk2 and python-glade2.
Those imports can not be found. Falling back to pager.
The error is: No module named glade
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 1.
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 1.
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For vde2:
(synaptic:3571): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
The gtk frontend needs a working python-gtk2 and python-glade2.
Those imports can not be found. Falling back to pager.
The error is: No module named glade
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 6.
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 6.
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(synaptic:4507): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
The gtk frontend needs a working python-gtk2 and python-glade2.
Those imports can not be found. Falling back to pager.
The error is: No module named glade
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 1.
Gtk-Message **: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Gtk2.pm line 126, <> line 1.
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I don't think I did anything unusual when installing this version of debian, in case that is helpful.
Any ideas now?