netcdf4/hdf5/mpi (-dev) on Debian sid

[Sylwester Arabas]

Hi Francesco,

Thanks for your answer.

On Jan 30, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 04:16:40PM +0100, slayoo wrote:
>> Dear Debian netcdf package maintainers,
>> 
>> I'm trying to get a development set-up of the netcdf4 package
>> on Debian sid with MPI-hdf5 support. Unfortunatelly, without sucess :(
>> 
>> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -v ^#
>> deb http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main
>> deb-src http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/debian/ sid main
>> $ sudo apt-get -V install libhdf5-mpi-dev libnetcdf-dev
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> libnetcdf-dev : Depends: libnetcdf6 (= 1:4.1.1-6+b1) but it is not
>> going to be installed
>> E: Broken packages
>> 
>> Could you let me know if that's at all possible with Debian binary
>> packages?
>> Am I doing it the right way?
>> 
> 
> Currently hdf5 does not provide an MPI version installable with the serial one

But I don't need the serial version at all. The only reason I wan't to install
HDF4 on this machine is to have the MPI IO available in netCDF4, and since it 
is implemented via HDF4 I need an MPI-enabled HDF4 install.

> ... due to upstream bad habit of using the same name and sonames for all
> versions (serial,parallel and so on). So you have to use the serial version.
> One possibility would be providing parallel versions for all buildable
> chains of tools, as an alternative, but it would be very complicated.
> See #591346 for information about this issue and try to convince upstream
> to support at least properly parallel flavors.

If I understand correctly, this bug refers to a hdf-mpi/hdf-serial conflict,
so again: my issue if kind of different.

Thanks,
Sylwester

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