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[Joachim Reichel <>]

Hi Matti,

>> The CGAL Open Source Project is pleased to announce the release 3.6.1 of
>> CGAL, the Computational Geometry Algorithms Library.
>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>> For further information and for downloading the library and its
>> documentation, please visit the CGAL web site: http://www.cgal.org/
>>
> 
> It seems that currently CGAL 3.6.1 is only available as debian binary 
> package
> from packages.debian.org/sid (with restricted to libboost 1.42 only).
> 
> Are there any plans to update packages at ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de with less strict
> requirements for libboost (something like 1.40, which is current Ubuntu 
> lucid
> version)?

Packages for Debian lenny (stable) and squeeze (testing) should be
available shortly. Since I'm not an Ubuntu user I don't intend to build
packages for specific Ubuntu releases. If the Debian packages do not
work, you could try to build one of the Debian source packages on your
Ubuntu system.

Joachim