I have the somewhat similar problems with Canola 2 install (among others).

I've been involved with computers since 1973 (I was 13 years old), and I find it amusing and COMPLETELY DISHEARTENING that with memory hundreds of thousands of times larger than what I dealt with (and wrote both programs and OS utilities for), that the Maemo/Linux/Debian (take your pick here) error messages SUCK.

Who ever, in the chain of programs (python? canola? application manager? maemo? debian?) is responsible for "Can Not Install Canola2" message, without giving even the f'n breadcrumb of clue as to why this occured should (temporarily) stop programming and ask themselves why they insist on sharing their crap with the general public. I'm all for extreme programming so to speak, but I hate to think that every thing I download for my tablet comes with a big Downloader Beware sticker on it, saying that you may have to spend hours trying to figure out why things aren't working.

Seriously: I understand that someone may have typed in a repository name wrong, but is the OS (or utilities) incapable of displaying something along the line of "We tried to download X which is required by the program, we expected it to be at Y, but it was not found?"

<rant over, feel better now, merry xmas>