[dinifti] dicomnifti/fsl conflict

[Valerio Luccio]

John Herrington wrote:
> I've used dinifti on a ubuntu 7.10 machine and am trying to install it 
> on ubuntu 8 (hardy: uname -a output below).  I already have the FSL 
> package installed on my machine.  When I try to install 
> dicomnifti_2.28.10-1_amd64.deb, I run into the following compatibility 
> issue:
>
> usr>sudo apt-get install dicomnifti
> ...snip
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  dicomnifti: Depends: libniftiio1 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> When I try to install libniftiio1 on it's own, apt-get wants to delete 
> FSL:
>
> usr>sudo apt-get install libniftiio1
> ...snip
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  fsl fslview libnifti1 nifti-bin
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  libniftiio1
>
> I use FSL and don't want it removed... can anyone think of a way I can 
> install dicomnifti and not remove FSL?  I tried compiling dicomnifti 
> from source but again ran into conflicts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
> P.S. uname -a output is: Linux localhost 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu 
> May 1 13:57:17 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
John,
I'm not familiar with Ubuntu and I didn't build the package. I really 
don't know what libniftiio1 is, unless that's the name used for 
libniftiio version 1.0. I'm a bit perplexed with the message you get, 
dinifti depends on libniftiio, regardless of version. I'm also not sure 
why libniftiio1 wants to remove fsl, unless fsl uses an older version of 
libniftiio.

Are the packages for Ubuntu the Debian packages ? If so, I can contact 
the Debian people and see what they think. Of course one could build the 
libniftiio libraries and dinifti by hand, but let's see if we can do it 
through the package method so that it won't break in the future.

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