I demand that Jimserac may or may not have written...

> Anyone know how to fix the following dependency problem?

[snip]
> Unpacking libmpich1.0ldbl (from .../
> libmpich1.0ldbl_1.2.7-3.1_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/
> libmpich1.0ldbl_1.2.7-3.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/mpich/lib/shared/libfmpich.so.1.0',
> which is also in package libmpich1.0c2
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpich1.0ldbl_1.2.7-3.1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

libmpich1.0c2 is no longer (officially) in unstable. You need to upgrade,
remove or locally rebuild any installed packages which depend on it, after
which you can safely remove it.

(You should probably use aptitude to go through your installed packages,
marking libraries, at least, as automatically installed; but be careful of
what this would mark as scheduled for removal.)

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