Robert Dodier wrote:
> 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
>
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Which version of linux? If you are using any of the redhat flavors,
then you should have 'yum' which gets the dependencies for you. Ubuntu
would use 'apt-get'.
Alternatively, you can compile the sources directly. If you want to do
this and don't know how, send me private email and I'll try to help.
-sen