Thread: [ANNOUNCE] Columbus Navigation Toolkit
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tswindell is offline tswindell
2011-01-20 , 07:17
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#219
Originally Posted by dontnowhy View Post
Firstly, it does not work after insert the following in XTerminal:
root
apt-get update
apt-get install columbus
exit
Then,
root
apt-get upgrade
apt-get update
apt-get install columbus
exit
This time, it works.

Please tell me why I have to insert apt-get upgrade!
I am an idiot on maemo system.
You have to apt-get update to update the package list so it knows about the new version, then you can install it. In general you should always do an apt-get update before installing something if you're unsure about what you're doing.