Re: Install 2.9.3

[Quentin Spencer]

Ron Crummett wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I am trying to install version 2.9.3 on my Debian Sarge machine and 
> when I run ./configure, I get the following errors:
>
> configure: WARNING: I couldn't fine -ltermcap, -lterminfo, -lncurses, 
> -lcurses, or -ltermlib!
> checking for rl_set_keyboard_input_timeout in -lreadline... no
> configure: WARNING: I need GNU Readline 4.2 or later
> configure: error: this is fatal unless you specify --disable-readline
>
> I'm new to all this, so...what does this all mean?  I don't know how 
> to tell if I have any of the items listed in the first line, and it 
> looks like I have a version of GNU Readline that will work.
>
> Any ideas of what I'm missing and how I can fix it?  Thanks.


I don't have much experience with Debian, but it looks like you probably 
have the libraries installed, but not the development headers needed for 
compiling programs that use those libraries. You will need to install 
some additional development packages, which will have a -dev extension 
to the package name in Debian (in other distributions it's -devel). For 
example, try installing libncurses5-dev using apt-get. You can probably 
find the names of the other packages you're looking for at 
http://packages.debian.org/stable/libdevel/. I hope this helps.

-Quentin



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