Thanks Radek,

my app is installed under /system/app. Just removing the apk from that
directory (with rm in adb) uninstalls it and allows the new installs by
user.

It would be better to have it by default installed in /data/app.

Ludwig

2009/2/5 Radek Polak <[email protected]>

>
>   I just installed the beta-3 kernel/rootfs which has my YGPS
>>  Satellites installed by default, which is nice. However, I was just
>>  trying to install an upgrade to it, and I get a
>>  INSTALL_FAILED_REPLACE_COULDNT_DELETE, because it is a system app. I
>>  cannot uninstall it via the PackageManager either and mounting rootfs
>>  as rw does not help either. Is there a trick somewhere to
>>  uninstall/reinstall system apps? (As a workaround I can just use a
>>  different package of course).
>>
>>  Ludwig
>>
>>
> Hi,
> i cant check for now, but the problem may be in rootfs.
> There are 2 directories used for installing apps:
>
> /system/app
> /data/app
>
> Maybe if the YGPS.apk is placed to /data/app instead of
> /system/app it would be possible to reinstall it.
>
> Unfortunately i cant verify this now.
>
> Radek
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