Christopher W. Aiken wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the > "simple" setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the > package configuration step. "ldconfig" also reports the same error. > > The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not available. > Sure enough libblacs-pvm.so is a symb link to libblacs-pvm.so.1 and > libblacs-pvm.so.1 is not available. > > Does anyone know where libblacs-pvm.so is? What it is used for?
It comes from the blacs1-pvm package: Package: blacs1-pvm Priority: extra Section: libs Installed-Size: 143 Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: blacs-pvm Version: 1.1-7 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2) Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/blacs1-pvm_1.1-7.deb Size: 38952 MD5sum: 3ced9b690f02c3ce38d3e859582cdef0 Description: Basic Linear Algebra Communications Subprograms The BLACS project is an ongoing investigation whose purpose is to create a linear algebra oriented message passing interface that may be implemented efficiently and uniformly across a large range of distributed memory platforms. . This package provides the shared libraries. Cheers, Remco.
