On Tue, 5 Nov 2013 11:22:13 +1000 pj@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi > > John J. Boyer wrote: > > ... Ubuntu systems. Neither has readline or readline-dev in > > its repository. where can I find them? I'm investigating the > > Lua programming language and want to compile the source. > > Tim Chase wrote: > > sudo apt-get install libreadline6{,-dev} > > Yup. If you check out the doc URL: > http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/lua/readline.html#download > it suggests: > It depends on the readline library and its header-files; > for example, on Debian you may also need: > # aptitude install libreadline6 libreadline6-dev > > but I don't know about Centos. If you find the right Centos > command, let me know, I'll mention it in the doc ... > Judging by http://mirror.centos.org/centos-6/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/ it seems that on CentOS it is: yum install readline-devel For the record on Mageia Linux it is: urpmi readline-devel Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Selina Mandrake - The Slayer (Buffy parody) - http://shlom.in/selina Lone Starr: “Just what we need — a Druish princess.” Barf: “Funny! She doesn’t look Druish.” — Spaceballs, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list