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 > [...] > >
