OK, so the package manager GUI should just work. <sigh /> It's the same thing; if apt-get doesn't warn, the app mugger will go through just fine. For some things that are warnings in apt-get, the app mugger will quit, to prevent screwing your system up even a little (and readily reversible) bit. But dependency issues are identical for both.

I recognize that the repos are broke; and having some working way of installing the software is good as a stop-gap until that's rectified. I just don't think statically linking is it.