asterisk users - Dec 2003 - Readline & readline-devel installation on RH9

I have a new user question.  Sorry I know most of you are Linux experts
I am not! I am just getting my feet wet with this.  And I am sorry to
ask this stupid question.

I was following an installation post from Wiki that said when using RH 9
you need to make sure that you have the following installed first and
you should check them with the following command.  Are there any other
items I need to check on.  I have been having problems setting up
asterisk so I want to rule out the OS first.

# rpm -q kernel-source redline redline-devel openssl opessl-devel

I have done this but my system reports that redline and readline-devel
not installed.  How do I install these items without re-installing RH 9
all over again?  Also why are these needed?

Ariel,

You can install them from the RH9 CD.  Also, make sure you use readline and not
redline.

Insert the RH9 CD
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS

rpm -ivh readline*.rpm

You may need to switch CDs in order to find the correct disc.

-sb


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com]On Behalf Of Ariel Batista
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:19 PM
To: Asterisk User List
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Readline & readline-devel installation on RH9


I have a new user question.  Sorry I know most of you are Linux experts
I am not! I am just getting my feet wet with this.  And I am sorry to
ask this stupid question.

I was following an installation post from Wiki that said when using RH 9
you need to make sure that you have the following installed first and
you should check them with the following command.  Are there any other
items I need to check on.  I have been having problems setting up
asterisk so I want to rule out the OS first.

# rpm -q kernel-source redline redline-devel openssl opessl-devel

I have done this but my system reports that redline and readline-devel
not installed.  How do I install these items without re-installing RH 9
all over again?  Also why are these needed?

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Ariel Batista <> wrote:
> readline-devel not installed.  How do I install these items without
> re-installing RH 9 all over again?  Also why are these needed?  
As to why they're needed, I can't tell you.  But I have some suggestions
on installing the packages you need.

I use apt for this kind of thing.  You can find it at apt.freshrpms.net.


After installing it, you can use:

Apt-get install <package name>

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Ariel Batista wrote:
> 
> # rpm -q kernel-source redline redline-devel openssl opessl-devel
> 
> I have done this but my system reports that redline and readline-devel
> not installed.  How do I install these items without re-installing RH 9
> all over again?  Also why are these needed?
> 
Issue #1: It appears you are using redline and not readline

Issue #2: readline is no longer needed for asterisk as of sometime around 
october of 2002

James

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 12:19, Ariel Batista
wrote:
> I have done this but my system reports that redline and
> readline-devel not installed.  How do I install these items without
> re-installing RH 9 all over again?  Also why are these needed?
Actually, they're no longer needed.  Asterisk now includes its own
readline implementation (called editline).

-Tilghman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gomillion" <dgomillion@eyecarenow.com>
To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Readline & readline-devel installation on RH9

> Ariel Batista <> wrote:
> 
> > readline-devel not installed.  How do I install these items without
> > re-installing RH 9 all over again?  Also why are these needed?  
They are *NOT* required
This is just Out of date Docs, they were long ago replaced by editline
..which is included in the * srcs now ...