Installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to install using this command:

sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'install Term::ReadLine::Gnu'
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But it is giving this error:

Found `/usr/lib/libtermcap.a'.
cc  -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-stric
+t-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFF
+SET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_STRING_H rlver.c -o rlver    -L/usr/local/lib -lre
+adline -ltermcap
rlver.c:3:31: error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
rlver.c: In function ‘main’:
rlver.c:4: error: ‘rl_library_version’ undeclared (first use in this f
+unction)
rlver.c:4: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rlver.c:4: error: for each function it appears in.)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!!
Could not compile rlver.c.
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I am running Ubuntun 8.04 and I have already installed the readline package. See below.

 sudo dpkg -l | grep -i readline
ii  libreadline5                               5.2-3build1            
+            GNU readline and history libraries, run-time
ii  libterm-readline-perl-perl                 1.0302-1               
+            Perl implementation of Readline libraries
ii  readline-common                            5.2-3build1
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Can anyone help me?

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Re: Installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 18, 2010 at 20:32 UTC
You need the development readline package too, i.e. something like libreadline5-dev, which contains the header files needed to compile rlver.c.	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by rowdog (Curate) on Jun 18, 2010 at 21:57 UTC
I agree but I'd go with `sudo aptitude install libreadline-dev` so you can get the headers for the installed version(s). For what it's worth, I have both 5 and 6 on my Debian Squeeze.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Jun 20, 2010 at 08:50 UTC
Ubuntu provides prebuilt apt packages for most CPAN libraries `:~$ apt-cache search Term::ReadLine::Gnu libterm-readline-gnu-perl - Perl extension for the GNU Readline/Histor +y Library` [download] So all you have to do is `:~$ sudo apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl` [download] Hope that helps `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by manoj7shekhawat (Initiate) on Aug 19, 2015 at 18:25 UTC
we need to install `readline-devel` to solve this.	[reply] [d/l]