Takatsugu Kobayashi wrote: > Hi, > > I migrated from windows to Fedora6 linux a few months ago, and am still > learning to make the best out of this fantastic OS.... > > I just installed GSL for my statistical research, but I installed it on > a different folder than the one I wa supposed to. I should have > installed /usr/include directory rather than /usr/local/include. So I > should specify the path to this usr/local/inlcude/gsl everytime I run > C/C++. > > This is very simple newbie question, but how to specify the path in the > process of ./configure, make, make install etc? I could just copy and > paste all the files in the gsl directory in /usr/local/include to > /usr/include by the chmod command.... > Hi, Very often (almost always) you can specify --prefix ./configure --prefix=/usr/ And all files will be written to /usr/include /usr/lib and etc, not under /usr/local/ However there is a gsl package in FC6 repository try "yum install gsl" and "yum install gsl-devel". Arturas M.