From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T04:37:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make readline work in IRB?

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Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:17 pm, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>   
>> Randy Kramer wrote:
>>     
>>> [root@s14 /]# rpm -q libreadline
>>> package libreadline is not installed
>>>
>>> I get a similar result.  Maybe that's part of the problem--I think I'll
>>> try to uninstall then reinstall libreadline.
>>>       
>> You may need the devel version of the package, so the readline headers
>> are found when you compile ruby.
>>     
>
> Joel, 
>
> Thanks!  That sounds like a likely possibility, but I'm not very familiar with 
> that kind of stuff.  Haven't found a package anything like readline-devel or 
> similar, nor a readline.h on my system.  Posted a question over on the 
> Mandriva expert list, I'll see if somebody there can give me some help.
>
> Randy Krame

For LE2005 there are a couple packages: libreadline4-devel and 
libreadline5-devel.
I bet one of those will help you.

-Justin

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