Flareup : "ah well, I know it's beta an all but not good. maybe there should be a "not simple to uninstall" warning." The problem flareup, is that is simple to unninstall, but if there's a mess of repositories, it will fail, thus is not a specific canola problem, but the way things are organized and user behavior. We cannot predict every users's action :/ "my two pee on the thing - looks nice, bu without playlist creation/editing functionality doesn't really add fnctionality. video playback messed up and froze device, which is why I'm (attempting) to uninstall." Yeah, it's a bugfix release, not feature release and features are coming. Video playback froze? We have been listen for a couple of other users this, and there's a reboot warning (you need the engine to be replaced) so it could be that you had the old engine working, because the player of the video itself is either mplayer or the default media player. Marcelo