lukshuntim@gmail.com writes: > I want to install liboctave-dev to use the pkg function and it insists > on the dependency libhdf5-dev which in turn depends on the *serial* > version libhdf5-7. > > I already have both libhdf5-openmpi-7 and libhdf5-openmpi-dev installed > which, according to apt-cache showpkg, provide libhdf5-7 and libhdf5-dev > respectively. The trouble is if I install the serial version of hdf5, > there's a conflict leading to their removal and also the *consequential* > removal of other packages that need the parallel version of hdf5 -- > something I can't afford. :-( > > I understand hdf5 is difficult to deal with but what would be the best > way forward? Note that octave works with libhdf5-openmpi-7, but liboctave-dev indeed needs libhdf5-dev which is not co-installable with libhdf5-openmpi-7. Using the MPI version of HDF5 with liboctave-dev was not working (see #598227). Then the HDF5 maintainers encouraged us to enforce the serial version. And unfortunately the two development packages are not co-installable. For more background information, see: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2012-February/008354.html Best, -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Maintainer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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