ROOT Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu packages available

Hi all,

There are new packages of ROOT 5.17/05 (pre-release) available for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu.

Packages for Debian GNU/Linux unstable "sid" are available for the following architectures: i386, amd64, hppa, and mips. For Debian GNU/Linux stable "etch" only i386 packages are available. See

        http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root

For Ubuntu "gutsty", there are packages for i386 and amd64. See

        http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/ubuntu 
        

If you have some "special" architecture Debian GNU/Linux installation that isn't covered by the above, and you have a few minutes to spare, I'd like to ask you to try to build the packages. Do

        $ cat <<EOF > root.list
    deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib non-free

    deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib non-free

    EOF
$ sudo mv root.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
$ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys 6620D4F5
$ gpg --export 6620D4F5 | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get build-dep root-system
$ apt-get -b source root-system

Let me know how it went. If it succeeded, please put the generated packages (.deb, .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, .diff.gz, .changes) somewhere public, and I'll put them in the repository.

If it fails, and you have a little more time to spare, take a look at

        http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceROOT 
        

for possible fixes. At the same page, there's also a table of which platforms have not been tested yet.

Yours,

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