On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Thomas Weber <twe...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 04:31:43PM +0100, JuanPi wrote:
>> We have the package msh, that to fully work needs gmsh installed in
>> the system. Now in Ubuntu 11.10 one cannot install gmsh and
>> libhdf5-serial.
>
> gmsh uses a parallel variant of hdf5, octave a serial one. Both variants
> cannot be installed at the same time.
>
> Shout at the hdf5 developers for using the same name for incompatible
> libraries. You can of course file a bug against hdf5 in whatever
> distribution you are using - the maintainer will agree with you and
> point to hdf5 upstream.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591346#21
>
>        Thomas

Thanks Thomas, that explains a lot. Indeed, I couldn't make mkoctfiel
work with any of the other libhdf5 implementations I installed.
I will see where I can file a bug...


-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

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