Re: Octave-maintainers Digest, Vol 72, Issue 66

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On 16 Mar 2012, at 21:35, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:

> I posted this in the OF mailing list (my highlight)
> 
> Here is the output of apt-get when I try to install libhdf5-serial
> 
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> libhdf5-serial-1.8.4
> Suggested packages:
> libhdf5-doc
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> ***** gmsh ****** libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4 libhdf5-openmpi-dev libmed1
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> libhdf5-serial-1.8.4 libhdf5-serial-dev
> 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 
I see ... 
It seems the gmsh package depends on libhdf5-openmpi which conflicts with 
libhdf5.
As a workaround, you can download a static build of gmsh from 
http://geuz.org/gmsh/#Download
c.