The report belongs to a package that is not installed

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Published on 2012-06-28T08:38:48Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 9:22 UTC
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I have gotten the error message "The report belongs to a package that is not installed."

Generally I would just ignore that since seemingly there is no problem except I got a crash report and then I said to report the problem and then I get this.

Now, how can a package or program crash that is not even installed? Sounds a little paradox, isn't it?

What should I do with this? Why does this even come up?

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