[QUOTE=Ed_]It seems that you have some packages unconfigured on your device.
Could you show me the output of this command: 'dpkg --configure -a" please?
You should run it from root account.

hi ed - ran the abv command and got this output

/home/user # dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libncurses5 (5.5-1) ...

Setting up libvte-common (0.12.1-1mh9) ...
Setting up libvte4 (0.12.1-1mh9) ...

Setting up osso-xterm (0.13.mh13) ...

ran the application mgr and now it works!!!! You guys are great. Thanks for your help all.