I'm on dapper too. I tried the repo suggested in gcompris site: http://thomas.enix.org/DebianRepository with dapper repo that get gCompris-7.4 and that worked correctly.
After that i remove gCompris-7.4 without purge it and reinstall the dapper 7.2 from official Ubuntu repo and *then* it worked! I suppose that it's a missing default config file in the dapper i386 version of dapper. -- Gcompris administration menu not working https://launchpad.net/bugs/49840 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs