@Drhal35 : we don't want at all this kind of problem, but we cannot fix things that we didn't broke. EVEN for that, we did think about people like you and did the Canola-cleanup, canola cleanup is not a installer, but if you face the "dependencies" problem on the app installer (that we have been trying to figure out where canola triggers it) then you use clean up to do ALL the command line commands that are needed to remove. Then you can install using the application manager.

So my wishlist for the future :

a) a application installer that doesn't break
b) a rock solid repository that don't send wrong messages and broken packages
c) good connection for all users, to avoid users blaming canola when they are not able to install anything
d) less repository madness

so we are doing our best, but if it's beyond our reach we will not be able to do much, but of course if I keep saying I want canola to be simple, it's not a purpose that is not happening. There are several types of users's behaviors that we cannot predict them all and we are learning with it... So we are behind this bug.. if this bug is our we will find it!

Marcelo