problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu

baxy77bax has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, just a technical question... I'm trying to install the Term::ReadLine::Gnu through cpan and the error message i'm getting is

CPAN.pm: Going to build H/HA/HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz

Could not find neither libtermcap.a, libncurses.a, or libcurses.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=s
+ite]
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state
  HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Could not read '/home/bakaric/.cpan/build/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20-q4EmL
+0/META.yml'. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
Failed during this command:
 HAYASHI/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.20.tar.gz        : writemakefile NO '/usr
+/bin/perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site' returned status 256
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What am I missing ??

THNX

I newer had any troubles with it until now. now i switched to Ubuntu 10.4(lucid) 64x

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Re: problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by marto (Cardinal) on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:53 UTC
Try installing libncurses plus libncurses-dev (the package manager/software centre should have them) and then retry the module installation.	[reply]
Re: problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Feb 02, 2011 at 10:55 UTC
Hi baxy, Ubuntu offers you a wonderful package manager in apt. try the following `sudo apt-get install libterm-readline-gnu-perl` [download] This should install all dependencies without the need to footle about `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: problems installing Term::ReadLine::Gnu by Anonymous Monk on Nov 19, 2013 at 09:35 UTC
Thanks solved the problem on 13.10	[reply]


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