gsl libraries

[Steve ROBBINS]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:04:46PM -0400, Slaven Peles wrote:
> The way I did it was to download gsl_1.3.orig.tar.gz and gsl_1.3-1.diff.gz 
> from Debian web site. Put these two in the same directory and unpack 'orig' 
> sources. Then do following:
> cd gsl-1.3
> zcat ../gsl_1.3-1.diff.gz | patch -p1
> chmod +x debian/rules
> dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot -b

That is, of course, the correct set of steps to take.
But there are shortcuts:

    fakeroot apt-get source --compile gsl

will do all the above, provided that you have an "unstable" deb-src
line in /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g.

    deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian     unstable   main contrib non-free


Regards,
-S