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Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released
- To: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: GNU Scientific Library (GSL) 0.8 is released
- From: Ben Pfaff <pfaffben at msu dot edu>
- Date: 25 May 2001 12:36:12 -0400
- References: <E153KZZ-0005fe-00@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
- Reply-To: pfaffben at msu dot edu
"Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd@debian.org> writes:
> > Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
> > > > * Packages for Debian GNU/Linux: libgsl0, libgsl0-dev, gsl-ref-psdoc
> > >
> > > Please add the actual links for these
> > >
> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl/
> > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gsl-ref-psdoc/
> > >
> >
> > Ok, but shouldn't they install it using apt-get or dselect?
>
> Sure, that works as well, is generally speaking a lot easier and doesn't
> require the links.
>
> But there are situations where you just want to grab just the .orig.tar.gz,
> .dsc and .diff.gz to recompile them locally (e.g. when the build daemons
That's what `apt-get source' is for.