Installing GHC

[Christian Maeder]

In any case you should install libreadline.so.5, because that's the
library that's needed by ghc for full functionality.  Under linux also
the package readline-compat might be helpful. That's all I know.

Cheers Christian

Daniel Fischer schrieb:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a ghc on a sidux box (something akin to debian, I believe). apt-get install seemed to work, but running ghc results in:
>  /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.6/ghc-6.6: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> So I'm trying to get libreadline.so.4. The compatibility RPM doesn't help, kpackage complains about missing /sbin/ldconfig, libncurses.so.5, libc.so.6 althouh all are present. apt-get install libreadline4 results in
> 
> Paket libreadline4 ist nicht verfügbar, wird aber von einem anderen
> Paket referenziert. Das kann heißen, dass das Paket fehlt, dass es veraltet
> ist oder nur aus einer anderen Quelle verfügbar ist.
> Doch die folgenden Pakete ersetzen es:
>   readline-common
> E: Paket libreadline4 hat keinen Installationskandidaten
> 
> What should I try next?
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> _____________________________________________________________________
> Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen!
> http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066