Re: Pg 8.3.6 installation

Hi Ray,

You need
ncurses-dev, libedit, libedit-dev, libreadline-dev, libreadline

On Fedora, I Installed ncurses and libed-dev or so and i was able to
compile.

Thanks
Deepak Murthy

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> Isabella Ghiurea wrote:
>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> Thank you , that was the rpm I was missing ( DEVEL), now I 'm getting
>> zlib missing , BUT is there ...Do I need a special flavor also ?
>> rpm -qa zlib
>> zlib-1.2.3-3
>> zlib-1.2.3-3
>> checking for library containing shmget... none required
>> checking for -lreadline... yes (-lreadline -ltermcap)
>> checking for inflate in -lz... no
>> configure: error: zlib library not found
>> If you have zlib already installed, see config.log for details on the
>> failure. It is possible the compiler isn't looking in the proper
>> directory.
>> Use --without-zlib to disable zlib support.
>>
>
> You need zlib-devel.
>
> Is there are particular reason you aren't just using the precompiled RPMS
> for 8.3.6?
>
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