[ gpsdrive ] maps deb

[Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Tettnang/Germany)]

Well, 

the layout of the official debian package and the packages on gpsdrive.de 
differ/overlap. So you'll first have to uninstall gpsdrive and 
gpsdrive-scripts from your machine and then install gpsdrive from 
gpsdrive.de.


On Dienstag 09 September 2008, Chris H wrote:
> On Monday 08 September 2008 22:26:45 Chris H wrote:
>
> Maps install again but scripts fail to install. The error message is as
> follows:
>
> dpkg: error
> processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gpsdrive-scripts_2.10~pre4-1_all.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/geo-code.1.gz', which is also in
> package gpsdrive
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gpsdrive-scripts_2.10~pre4-1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> now when i run a dpkg --contents on the package it indeed contains the
> file /usr/bin/geo-code which is already made available by
> gpsdrive_2.10svn20159263_i386.deb hence not installable.



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Jörg (Germany, Tettnang)

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