yum showing readline installed but readline command not working

bash centos readline libreadline rlwrap
Akshay Hiremath picture Akshay Hiremath · Sep 30, 2014 · Viewed 15.8k times · Source

yum My system shows readline installed

rlwrap-0.41]$ sudo yum install readline
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Package readline-6.0-4.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

But when I run readline command it doesn't work

-bash: readline: command not found

I thought command binary may not be on path so tried searching for it but no luck..!!

sudo find /usr/ -iname readline

basically I'm trying to install http://freecode.com/projects/rlwrap/ and the configure is failing saying readline library is not found.

Answer

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams picture Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Sep 30, 2014

"readline" is not a command.

If you are trying to build software that uses the readline library then you need to install readline-devel.

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