Public bug reported:

When I goto System > Administration > Update manager 
Nothing happens eg update manager dose not start. I can use Synaptic Package 
manager 

ch...@chris-desktop:~$ update-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 53, in <module>
parser = OptionParser()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1198, in __init__
self.set_usage(usage)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1273, in set_usage
self.usage = _("%prog [options]")
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 581, in gettext
return dgettext(_current_domain, message)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 545, in dgettext
codeset=_localecodesets.get(domain))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 493, in translation
t = _translations.setdefault(key, class_(open(mofile, 'rb')))
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 180, in __init__
self._parse(fp)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/gettext.py", line 273, in _parse
magic = unpack('<I', buf[:4])[0]
struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 4
ch...@chris-desktop:~$

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ch...@chris-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall update-manager python2.6
[sudo] password for chris:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
python2.6 update-manager
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not 
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3,297kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 173578 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python2.6 2.6.4-0ubuntu3 (using 
.../python2.6_2.6.4-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.6 ...
Preparing to replace update-manager 1:0.126.9 (using 
.../update-manager_1%3a0.126.9_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement update-manager ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Setting up python2.6 (2.6.4-0ubuntu3) ...

Setting up update-manager (1:0.126.9) ...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

ch...@chris-desktop:~$

** Affects: ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Update manager will not open
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549350
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