[Pkg-octave-devel] liboctave-dev insists on serial version of the hdf5 library

[Sébastien Villemot]

lukshuntim at 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,

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