baxy77bax has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, just a technical question... I'm trying to install the Term::ReadLine::Gnu through cpan and the error message i'm getting is 
CPAN.pm: Going to build H/HA/HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz

Could not find neither libtermcap.a, libncurses.a, or libcurses.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=s
+ite]
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state
  HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read '/home/bakaric/.cpan/build/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20-q4EmL
+0/META.yml'. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
Failed during this command:
 HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz        : writemakefile NO '/usr
+/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 256

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What am I missing ??

THNX

PS

I newer had any troubles with it until now. now i switched to Ubuntu 10.4(lucid) 64x

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Re: problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu
by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:55 UTC
    Hi baxy,

    Ubuntu offers you a wonderful package manager in apt. try the following 

    sudo apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl

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    This should install all dependencies without the need to footle about

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      Thanks solved the problem on 13.10
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Re: problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu
by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:53 UTC

    Try installing libncurses plus libncurses-dev (the package manager/software centre should have them) and then retry the module installation.

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