Hi Tom

Ok, tried that and here is the response. Maybe you can advise me on what is the problem. I thought I had remembered entering that command before. I have the two dependencies listed on the web site of python-serial and python-libxml2 installed so that isn't the problem.

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marty@marty-Laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install chirp-daily [sudo] password for marty: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: chirp-daily 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/269 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,267 kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 233622 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking chirp-daily (from .../chirp-daily_20120919~precise~1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/chirp-daily_20120919~precise~1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/chirpw', which is also in package chirp 0.1.12-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/chirp-daily_20120919~precise~1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) marty@marty-Laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/chirpw -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1949 Oct 19 2011 /usr/bin/chirpw

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Marty kd8bj

On 09/25/2012 05:14 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:

The package you need to install is "chirp-daily".

sudo apt-get install chirp-daily

Tom KD7LXL

Thanks Dan and Tom That worked I am now up to date. I will test to see if the package works correctly on the Vx5r when I get a chance.

Marty kd8bj

On 09/25/2012 06:33 PM, Dan Smith wrote:

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trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/chirpw', which is also in package chirp

Try this first:

apt-get remove chirp

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