Hello. I just got my n800 through the mail the other day. I need some help. I'm using the latest 2007OS firmware (the july skype update). Here are my problems:

1. The package manager sucks. Maybe I'm spoiled with apt-get, but it won't seem to want to resolve dependencies for me. I can't install some programs, like pidgin, because it needs many dependencies.

I added the maemo repository to my list
I changed most catalogs from "bora" to chinook"
I'm in red pill mode
I've try to manually download the dependecies.

Such as libc6. I have libc6 installed. Many apps still say they can't be installed because they need libc6. If I update libc6, it says it can't be updated, because one of it's dependencies is itself! (libc6). Surely a package can't depend on itself to update?

Also, many things can't be updated because of the problem noted above. It also wants libglib (which I installed), libdbus (which I installed), and other things. Another problem is, libc6 says it conflicts with a lot of other packages. When I try to uninstall the packages libc6 conflicts with, it won't let me, because other packages depend on it. This is quite a messCan someone please help me with this? I even tried installing xterminal, and doing

sudo -s
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

But I don't know the sudo password, or root's password. I figured tha t if the n800's craptastic package manager can't handle it, maybe apt-get can.


Cliffnotes: Can I get either:
sudo password
root password
more repositories with the packages I'm missing (I already have the maemo and maemo hackers repositories in my catalog)

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I should probably add I'm a linux newbie, and don't know anything about bash, ssh, etc. If your steps to help me include ssh, please go into further detail. I run Ubuntu on my pc (from Edgy to Gutsy) and windows XP, so I'm not too good with computers.