problem associated with installing dynare

Bug #985127 reported by jmnason
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Bug Description

trying to install version of boost libraries for dynare ... keep getting

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost-serialization1.46-dev_1.46.1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/libboost_serialization.a', which is also in package libboost-serialization1.40-dev 1.40.0-6ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost-serialization1.46-dev_1.46.1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb

when trying

sudo apt-get -f install

after invoking

sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.46-dev_1.46.1-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb;

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: libboost1.46-dev 1.46.1-5ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-19.32-generic 3.0.27
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 18 14:22:40 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: boost1.46
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-20 (120 days ago)

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