Re-reading the earlier info in this bug report taught me the package
involved is "yelp". So, to see what would happen, I took a snapshot of
what packages I have installed (sudo dpkg -l >installed) and then used
Synaptic to uninstall yelp. Somewhat to my surprise, the uninstall
also nuked ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-doc and gnome-user-guide.
Immediately after the uninstall, I reinstalled all 4 packages. sudo
dpkg -l >installed-2; diff installed installed-2 showed the package list
to be exactly as it was before. For the record:
d...@drew-laptop:~/dpkg$ grep yelp installed
ii yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
Help browser for GNOME 2
d...@drew-laptop:~/dpkg$ grep ubuntu-doc installed
ii ubuntu-docs 8.10.2
The Ubuntu Documentation Project
d...@drew-laptop:~/dpkg$ grep ubuntu-desktop installed
ii ubuntu-desktop 1.124
The Ubuntu desktop system
d...@drew-laptop:~/dpkg$ grep gnome-user-guide installed
ii gnome-user-guide 2.24.0+svn20080922ubuntu2
GNOME user's guide
After the about steps, "about ubuntu" had disappeared from my "System"
menu. So I rebooted and not only did the "about Ubuntu" menu item come
back, but the missing info has materialized too. Some postinstall
script that didn't run during the original installation? Looking back
in my notes, this system started out with 8.04 (Hardy) and then I
followed the instructions on http://www.ubuntugeek.com/upgrade-
ubuntu-804-hardy-heron-server-to-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html to
upgrade it to intrepid. Only other installation novelty I can think of
on this system is its a WUBI install on top of Vista. Attached is the
handsome and now correct looking release/version page.
Drew
** Attachment added: "Screenshot-Version and Release Numbers-good.png"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/23893599/Screenshot-Version%20and%20Release%20Numbers-good.png
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