On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Cherry
Kearton<cherry.kearton at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to install Maxima on a linux machine: the command
>
> rpm -ivh maxima-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
> maxima-exec-clisp-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
> maxima-xmaxima-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm
>
> produces the response
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
> ? ? ? ?libreadline.so.4 is needed by maxima-exec-clisp-5.19.0-1.centos4.i386
>
> "locate libreadline" produces the response
>
> /lib/libreadline.so.5
Some Linux distributions have a separate readline 4 library
which you can install in addition to the default version
(which is version 5 in your case).
If you have superuser privilege or you can prevail upon your
sysadmin, try installing readline 4.
I will try to compile Maxima w/ a Clisp which has readline statically
linked so it doesn't need libreadline.so. I'll post a followup for that.
Sorry for the bother,
Robert Dodier