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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev