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Josh Pinto
Asked: 2012-09-30 10:18:58 +0800 CST

How do I install GNU Readline?

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Basically as per question. I have the .tar.gz file but I can't seem to install it. I did the whole, ./configure, make and make install but it didn't work.

12.04

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  1. Best Answer

    You can install the packages by using the command in a terminal (Press Ctrl-Alt-T to bring it).

    sudo apt-get install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev

    The package libreadline is for running applications using readline command

    and the package libreadline-dev is for compiling and building readline application.

    Credit goes to this blog post

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  2. libreadline6 don't work anymore.

    The latest one is lib32readline7.

    Or it's better to look at the available libraries along with a short description using following code:

    apt-cache search readline

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  3. sudo apt-get install lib32readline7 lib32readline-dev

    can be used.

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