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[mm <>]

Hello,

I am working for a university project and part of it requires cgal. 
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and cgal can be installed directly through Ubuntu's
package management system, in my case using Synaptic. I install libcgal-dev
(version 3.6.1), which asks for libboost-dev and libboost1.42-dev as
dependencies. Now, you must know that the project I'm working on also
requires a boost version newer than 1.42, at least 1.44. So, when I install
libcgal-dev and its dependencies, it gives me the error:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.42-dev_1.42.0-4ubuntu2_i386.deb: trying
to overwrite '/usr/include/boost/exception.hpp', which is also in package
libboost-exception-dev 110812-natty
I can then use cgal, as it is kind of installed, but Ubuntu will continue to
say that there is a broken package and I must fix it before I can update or
install any other package. So, I always need to uninstall cgal, reinstall
libboost-dev (which resolves the actual "broken dependencies" error), do my
updates/installs and then reinstall cgal, resulting in a broken dependency,
again.

Somebody from #ubuntu on freenode recommended to write to the list, as this
might be a bug. Can it be, for example, that libcgal-dev in version 3.6.1
requires libboost-dev's version to be equal to 1.42 and not equal or newer
than 1.42?

Thanks for your attention and have a nice day,
Manuel

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