No termcap nor curses library found while configuring rlwrap on OEL
While configuring rlwrap on my Oracle Enterprise Linux,I faced some below errors
[root@mazar rlwrap-0.30]# ./configure
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configure: checking for pty ranges…
checking for tgetent… no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses… no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses… no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap… no
configure: WARNING: No termcap nor curses library found
checking for readline in -lreadline… no
configure: error:
Solution : We need to install below rpm packages
[root@mazar tmp]# rpm -Uvh libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.i386.rpm
warning: libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:libtermcap-devel ########################################### [100%]
[root@mazar tmp]# rpm -Uvh readline-devel-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm
warning: readline-devel-5.1-3.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:readline-devel ########################################### [100%]
[root@mazar tmp]#
After Installed, Now I Can able to configure rlwrap.
[root@mazar rlwrap-0.30]# ./configure
checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-
config.status: creating doc/rlwrap.man
config.status: creating distribution/rlwrap.spec
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
Now do:
make (or gmake) to build rlwrap
make check for instructions how to test it
make install to install it
pc-linux-gnu
DBA 
Some Idea… style Oracle Linux: using yum
# ./configure
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checking for tgetent in -lcurses… no
checking for tgetent in -lncurses… no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap… no
configure: WARNING: No termcap nor curses library found
checking for readline in -lreadline… no
configure: error:
You need the GNU readline library(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/ ) to build
this program!
# yum install libtermcap-devel readline-devel
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
–> Running transaction check
—> Package ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.7-3.20090208.el6 will be installed
—> Package readline-devel.x86_64 0:6.0-3.el6 will be installed
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
ncurses-devel x86_64 5.7-3.20090208.el6 ol6_u1_base 643 k
readline-devel x86_64 6.0-3.el6 ol6_u1_base 134 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 2 Package(s)
Total download size: 777 k
Installed size: 2.0 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/2): ncurses-devel-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64.rpm | 643 kB 00:03
(2/2): readline-devel-6.0-3.el6.x86_64.rpm | 134 kB 00:01
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Total 108 kB/s | 777 kB 00:07
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : ncurses-devel-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64 1/2
Installing : readline-devel-6.0-3.el6.x86_64 2/2
Installed:
ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.7-3.20090208.el6 readline-devel.x86_64 0:6.0-3.el6
Complete!
# ./configure
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating filters/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/rlwrap.man
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
Now do:
make (or gmake) to build rlwrap
make check for instructions how to test it
make install to install it
# make && make install
Thank you…:-)