I'd like to thank the GPE crew for the 2.7 update which has resulted in an unusable Calendar app and the resulting removal of all GPE software in attempts to get it installed. And the litter of libs left broken on my N800 that I now have to manually uninstall. Not cool. I guess I should be happy that I can uninstall them. Oh!! there goes my low battery indicator from all the install and uninstalls.

Yay!

Did you not read the part where it says:

... on the Graham's Internet Tablet *Experimental* Repository webpage?

AFAIK, v2.7 is not in the main stable GPE repositories yet.

That being said, while I had to uninstall the old gpe apps and their libraries (all in Blue Pill mode ... no Red Pill needed), the new gpe apps installed and ran just fine after I cleaned out all the old stuff. Since all the data files are kept elsewhere it even maintained all my todo lists, contacts, etc. I expect that when 2.7 is stable and not experimental, it will obsolete your old libs and apps properly. But you shouldn't expect it to do so on an experimental version where you are warned many times that it is experimental. Just provide detailed, non-sarcastic feedback on what broke to the author (his email is on the project webpage http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/experimental.html ) and you will likely get more satisfaction with the next version.

Also, you should install/uninstall while the tablet is charging so that you don't end up borking something if your tablet's power dies while it is modifying an important config file.

Right. But the problem here is that I don't recall adding any experimental repos to my list. I don't mess with the repos. except to disable ones that cause the app lists to not refresh. So in light of that I'm quite annoyed.

What repo are you pulling it from? That website that I pointed to lists all the packages (including non-obviously named library files) that are part of GPE so you should be able use that to manually clear out all the cruft without too much fuss ... and like I said, once you do that, the new version seems to work for me on my N800.

Follow up. After much effort I discovered that it was the GPE timesheet app that put the experimental repository in my app manager which is why I saw the experimental GPE updates show up. disabled it and got the app to re-install.