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have to computers basically setup the with the same distro of Debian testing amd64.
I pulled a total list of what was installed on the working computer, and imported that list to the non-working computer, and installed a bunch of other "stuff".
Seems to open as normal now.
to get the complete list of installed programs, I ran from the terminal;
sudo dpkg --get-selections >/Desktop/installed.txt
and on the non working computer, from within synaptic, I read the that file into synaptic amd installed the "missing" files
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