[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: octave uninstallable due to dev problem

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Octave maintainers,

Could you please help Nicolas. Does Octave2.1 need a rebuild?

Regards,  Dirk

On 30 June 2005 at 01:38, Nicolas Guilbert wrote:
| Dear Dirk
| 
| I get the following error when trying to install the octave2.1 package:
| 
| l1server:/home/nicolas# apt-get install octave2.1
| <snip>
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|   octave2.1: Depends: libhdf5-serial-1.6.2-0 but it is not installable or
|                       libhdf5-1.6.2-0 but it is not installable
| E: Broken packages
| 
| 
| The available libhdf5 package seems to have version 1.6.4-2
| 
| sources.list file looks like this (I recently removed some other repositories):
| 
| deb ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/debian unstable main contrib non-free
| 
| 
| 
| Please let me know if this is the way you would like dependency
| problems to be reported.
| 
| Best regards
|   Nicolas

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