lua-devel can't find libreadline.so.5?

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Wednesday, May 02, 2012, Niels de Vos elucidated thus:
> On 05/03/2012 06:30 AM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > This may be a total newbie mistake, but I'm getting the error below
> > from the following command:
> > 
> > # yum -d0 -e0 -y  install lua-devel-5.1.4-4.el5
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 from addon-epel5-x86_64 has depsolving
> > problems
> > 
> >    -->  Missing Dependency: libreadline.so.5 is needed by package
> > 
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 (addon-epel5-x86_64)
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 from addon-epel5-x86_64 has depsolving
> > problems
> > 
> >    -->  Missing Dependency: libncurses.so.5 is needed by package
> > 
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 (addon-epel5-x86_64)
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libncurses.so.5 is needed by package
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 (addon-epel5-x86_64)
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libreadline.so.5 is needed by package
> > lua-5.1.4-4.el5.i386 (addon-epel5-x86_64)
> > 
> >   You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> >   You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
> >   
> >                          package-cleanup --dupes
> >                          rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> > 
> > The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package.
> 
> You seem to be missing the package called readline. My RHEL-5 shows
> the following: # yum whatprovides libreadline.so.5
> Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
> Updating Red Hat repositories.
> readline-5.1-3.el5.i386 : A library for editing typed command lines.
> Repo        : rhel-x86_64-server-5
> Matched from:
> Other       : libreadline.so.5
> 
> You might be missing the rhel-x86_64-server-5 repository. If this is
> on a RHEL-system, you likely need to register it at the Red Hat
> Network: - https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/11216

This is a CentOS box.  Maybe I messed up the repos on install.  At any 
rate, you've given me a place to start troubleshooting.

Thank you.

j


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