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

[Sébastien Villemot]

Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> writes:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
>
>> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-08-10 18:50]:
>>
>>> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
>>> 
>>> > I am failing to replicate the above with the patch that you sent today.
>>> > When I install the patched version of the packages, liboctave1 still
>>> > depends on libhdf5-7, which conflicts with libhdf5-openmpi-7, and that
>>> > prevents the installation of libhdf5-openmpi-dev.  I am surely missing
>>> > something here.
>>> 
>>> libhdf5-openmpi-7 provides libhdf5-7, so you just uninstall the latter
>>> and install the former.
>>> 
>>> Then you will be able to co-install libhdf5-openmpi-dev and the patched
>>> liboctave-dev.
>>
>> Ok, thank, it works.
>>
>> At any rate, it is a pity that in order to replace libhdf5-7 by
>> libhdf5-openmpi-7 we need to remove octave first.  If would be better it
>> this could be I.
>
> I was able to do the switch with aptitude (in interactive mode) without
> uninstalling octave. It is also possible with aptitude on the command
> line using the resolver. But it indeed looks impossible with apt-get.

Sorry, it also works with apt-get.

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