Where do I fine readline and readline-dev [PS]

[pj at pjb.com.au]

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 ...

In general, aptitude lets you search, eg:
  aptitude search readline

Regards,  Peter Billam

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