Newbie question, installing hugs on redhat 7.2

[Malcolm Wallace]

S H <shandley_42@yahoo.com> writes:

> I downloaded the file hugs98-Dec2001-1.i386.rpm onto
> the freshly-installed red hat 7.1 (no other software
> has been installed).  It complains that
> libreadline.so.4 is needed.  The system has the
> package readline-4.1-9 installed which provides
> libreadline.so.4.1.  It appears to require exactly
> libreadline.so.4 (not >= 4).

Try making a symbolic link from libreadline.so.4 to libreadline.so.4.1,
i.e.
    cd /usr/lib; ln -s libreadline.so.4.1 libreadline.so.4

Regards,
    Malcolm