Which package contains libreadline.so.5?

[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 17:24, John Cox wrote:
> I tried to install the latest dev package for abiword and it
> needs libreadline.so.5 and libhistory.so.5.
> How do I find out which package contains these files?
> thanks.
> John


It looks like a later version of readline than is currently on FC3.


 locate libreadline

/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4
/usr/lib/libreadline.so
/usr/lib/libreadline.a
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.3
 

 rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4

readline-4.3-13