What 'dpkg -l | grep nedit' gives you? I get the following:
ii nedit 5.5-1ubuntu1 A powerful, customizable, Motif based text e So it is saying that 5.5.1ubuntu1 is installed while launchpad says that edgy have 5.5-2ubuntu1: 2006-07-05 22:03:00 EEST Published edgy Release universe editors 1:5.5-2ubuntu1 And according debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=330048 This bug should have been fixed in 5.5-2 -- nedit fails to launch with an X error https://launchpad.net/bugs/81103 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
