Re: couldn't build pipe-viewer with debian
I put libreadline-dev on the machine since that wasn't installed and ran
the instructions in the README.md file in pipe-viewer directory and the
whole package built and installed.
Thanks for the pointer on that -dev file. I'll have to check for those in
the future.
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> I forgot to install the -dev package. I'll try this again and see if it
> goes through.
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 07:38:25PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > > pipe-viewer youtube-viewer and straw-viewer cannot be built with debian.
> > > The reasons for that are each of those packages require
> > > Term::ReadLine::Gnu and Term::ReadLine::Gnu cannot be built withreadline
> > > 2.0. That's an ancient version of readline. I tried with readline 2.01
> > > and my x86_64 equipment wasn't recognized by that package. The readline
> > > versions go all the way up to 8.0 by now [...]
> >
> > The version of the libreadline8 package on bullseye is 8.1-1.
> >
> > Is there any chance you're conflating the version number of GNU readline
> > (a C library provided by the bash maintainer, currently version 8.x on
> > bullseye) with some perl package that has "readline" in its name? Or
> > that you simply forgot to install libreadline-dev?
> >
> > Could you show us the actual error message you get when you try to
> > build it?
> >
> > Also, what's wrong with the libterm-readline-gnu-perl package in Debian?
> > Is it too old or something?
> >
> > unicorn:~$ apt-cache show libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> > Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> > Version: 1.37-1
> > [...]
> >
> > unicorn:~$ apt-cache show libreadline-dev
> > Package: libreadline-dev
> > Source: readline
> > Version: 8.1-1
> > [...]
> >
> >
>
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