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["Åsmund Ødegård" <aasmund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for not being very verbal on the list, but I am still working on the
issue!

Soon there will be working packages, but I have to clean up the scripts for
building the debian packages quite a bit to make the packages work right on
the platforms we want.

On 9/25/07, Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Sorry for coming back to a thread we previously discussed, but the
> situation for the libumfpack4 library in Debian testing seems to have
> come to a halt.
> I still cannot install dolfin from the repositories and trying to
> force a different version of libumfpack4 may give rise to other
> problems (Scipy and God knows what else depend upon this library).
> I emailed the maintainer asking whether the situation is going to
> change and if the newest version is going to be uploaded into testing
> soon, but I have had no reply yet.
> Although this is not really the job/responsibility of anyone on the
> list, are there any suggestions? I would like to use precompiled
> binaries instead of building from source and using CVS, but I cannot
> switch to Ubuntu simply for this (even if it was only because I cannot
> afford the time to re-install everything on my work laptop for a
> software I want to learn how to use for "personal development").
> Many thanks
>
> Lorenzo
>
>
> $ sudo apt-get install libdolfin
> 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.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libdolfin: Depends: libumfpack4 (>= 4.4-3)
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> On 25/09/2007, LUK ShunTim <shuntim.luk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Lorenzo Isella wrote:
> > > Ok, so it should all boil down to waiting a few days (hopefully).
> > > I think I will follow this waiting policy, hoping that in the
> > > meanwhile the python 2.4 vs 2.5 issue gets sorted out.
> > > I understand this must be a pain for the maintainers of dolfin!
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Lorenzo
> >
> >
>



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