How to install gpt fdisk 8.4 in Kubuntu 12.04

Question

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: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/srs5694/xUbuntu_11.10/amd64/gptfdisk_0.8.4-1_amd64.deb

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?

Answer 1

It is available here now:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdisk/0.8.4-1
“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

Answer 2

libicu44, I downloaded this one. It installed fine.

http://mirror.pnl.gov/ubuntu//pool/main/i/icu/libicu44_4.4.2-2ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb