diff --git a/README b/README
index c701deb0..edf3c134 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -80,12 +80,15 @@ sudo apt-get install build-essential
 make
 
 
-Building with ckdb requires installation of the postgresql development library.
+Building with ckdb requires installation of the postgresql, gsl and ssl
+development libraries.
 
-sudo apt-get install build-essential libpq-dev
+sudo apt-get install build-essential libpq-dev libgsl0ldbl libgsl0-dev
 ./configure
 make
 
+N.B. ckdb also requires libssl-dev but libpq-dev depends on it and installs it
+
 
 Building from git also requires autoconf and automake