After some major software battling, another solver is in and working:
TAUCS is functional now.
http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/taucs/
A tar is available at github, under "downloads".
https://github.com/boyle/meagre-crowd
Release 0.4.3: Mar 02, 2011
Major rewrite of the get_dependencies script (probably partially
broken now)
Added solver: TAUCS
Fixed a bug in TAUCS LU solver. (patch)