I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 (64bit). The Ubuntu repos contain gpt fdisk 8.1 which is not the latest. The latest version is 8.4 and it contains some bug fixes I want to have.

I downloaded the latest deb package from here:

When I tried to install it initially, I got an error that dependencies could not be satisfied. So I installed the version from the repos first, then tried to install the latest version over that. Now I get the error below.

# dpkg -i gptfdisk_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package gptfdisk.
(Reading database ... 90031 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gptfdisk (from gptfdisk_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing gptfdisk_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb (--install): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man8/cgdisk.8.gz', which is also in package gdisk 0.8.1-1build1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing: gptfdisk_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb

How can I install 8.4 of gpt fdisk?

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It is available here now:

“gdisk” 0.8.4-1 source package in Ubuntu

Ubuntu “gdisk” package - 0.8.4-1

• New upstream release:
  • Fix FTBFS with gcc-4.7 (Closes: #667177)
  • Drop debian/patches/eof_stdin.diff, accepted upstream
  • Refresh debian/patches/manpages.diff (minor typo fixed upstream)

Uploaded by: Guillaume Delacour on 2012-04-20

libicu44, I downloaded this one. It installed fine.

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