[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#504161: libopenmpi-dev: Package cannot be installed

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Can we have a quick chat about this via email or on #irc?  I am a little lost
as to how this happened.  Anybody have an idea what changed?  Files in svn
look sane to me.

Dirk

On 1 November 2008 at 17:47, Ryo IGARASHI wrote:
| Package: libopenmpi-dev
| Version: 1.2.8-1
| Severity: important
| 
| Hi,
| 
| When I upgrade openmpi related package, libopenmpi-dev package
| fails to be installed with following output:
| 
| Unpacking libopenmpi-dev (from .../libopenmpi-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb) ...
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libopenmpi-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
|  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/openmpi/lib/libmpi_cxx.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libopenmpi1
| dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
| Errors were encountered while processing:
|  /var/cache/apt/archives/libopenmpi-dev_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
| E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
| A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
| 
| Best regards
| -- 
| Ryo IGARASHI
| 
| -- System Information:
| Debian Release: lenny/sid
|   APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
|   APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
| Architecture: i386 (i686)
| 
| Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
| Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
| Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
| 
| Versions of packages libopenmpi-dev depends on:
| ii  libc6                         2.7-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
| ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.2-1  GCC support library
| ii  libgfortran3                  4.3.2-1    Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap
| ii  libibverbs1                   1.1.2-1    A library for direct userspace use
| ii  libopenmpi1                   1.2.8-1    high performance message passing l
| ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.2-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
| ii  openmpi-common                1.2.8-1    high performance message passing l
| 
| libopenmpi-dev recommends no packages.
| 
| libopenmpi-dev suggests no packages.
| 
| 
| 
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