I agree with Michael; anything that breaks the package manger should NOT be low 
priority.
I was advised to drop to a console and run 'sudo apt-get install -f' and that 
failed miserably.
Then, Ubuntu Software Manager advised I use the 'Broken Filter'......Huh?
After some Googling, I found that someone used Synaptic to repair the broken 
package.
It was in there that I found 'Filters' and clicked 'Broken'.
I STILL didn't know what to do, but intuitively right clicked and saw 'Remove 
broken package'.
This worked, but what a hassle to go through.
This would MOST DEFINITELY scare away a noob.
I envision the package manager behaving a bit more like this:
Ubuntu Software Manager encountered a problem, would like to autorepair?  Yes/No
There are (x) number of packages broken, would you like to view the list? Yes/No
Attempting to repair/remove broken packages...please wait:

Until then, my Mum just can't use this.  ;)

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package libmysqlclient16 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to 
overwrite '/usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.16.0.0', which is also in package 
mysql-cluster-client-5.1 0:7.0.9-1ubuntu7
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574367
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