Just tried to install GNU Readline Library Version 2.1 but didn't manage to do that

I don't have any experience in trying to build the ReadLine library ... so I'm not very well qualified to be giving advice :-)

But firstly, afaict, the latest version is 5.2 - and you would probably be better off trying to install that version (rather than 2.1). When they say that 2.1 is required, they really mean that "2.1 or later" is required.

The actual error you got (which, I assume, was produced when running ./configure) would indicate that ./configure was unable to determine your OS/architecture. What does ./config.guess report ?

Perhaps the ability to guess correctly has been enhanced in the latest version of Gnu ReadLine ?

Is there, perchance, an RPM of a suitably recent version of Gnu ReadLine that you could install (thereby eliminating the need for you to build it yourself) ?

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by syphilis
in thread problem installing module Term::ReadLine::Gnu by GertMT

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