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Fenics Ubuntu packages broken?

Asked by Christoph Ortner

I tried to install fenics by strictly following webpage instructions, on a clean Ubuntu 9.10 installation. I received the following error messages. A further investigation suggests that "libparmetis-dev" doesn't exist any more but is replaced by "libscotchmetis-dev". The latter installs fine, but the fenics package is expecting "libparmetis-dev" and therefore doesn't install.

Any solution?

Many thanks,
  Christoph

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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  fenics: Depends: dolfin-dev (>= 0.9.5) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: python-pydolfin0 (>= 0.9.5) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: dolfin-doc but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: dolfin-bin but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Best Johannes Ring (johannr) said : 		#1

The package libparmetis-dev does exist in Ubuntu 9.10. It's in the multiverse repository:

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libparmetis-dev

I guess the multiverse repository isn't enabled by default.

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Christoph Ortner (ortner) said : 		#2

Many thanks; since I'm new to Ubuntu: how do I enable "multiverse"?

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Johannes Ring (johannr) said : 		#3

I have updated the wiki page with a link to instructions on how to enable the Universe and Multiverse repositories:

http://fenics.org/wiki/Download

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Anders Logg (logg) said : 		#4

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:01:05AM -0000, Christoph Ortner wrote:
> Question #99535 on FEniCS Project changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/fenics/+question/99535
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Christoph Ortner is still having a problem:
> Many thanks; since I'm new to Ubuntu: how do I enable "multiverse"?

Here's a good instruction manual:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Found by google:"ubuntu enable multiverse" :-)

--
Anders

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Christoph Ortner (ortner) said : 		#5

Thank you.
  --Christoph

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Christoph Ortner (ortner) said : 		#6

Just as a remark: it is possible that I disabled multiverse on installation (I vaguely remember disabling software that isn't free)
   --Christoph

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Christoph Ortner (ortner) said : 		#7

Thanks Johannes Ring, that solved my question.