Hallow there openSUSE folks. I recently moved from Debian and Fedora to openSUSE, everything went very smooth and I was very pleased until I saw that libreadline5-dev is missing in repositories. I have searched over Google for a few hours but I haven’t met a reasonable solution to appropriately and easily install libreadline5-dev in openSUSE. I already have noticed that openSUSE has it’s own behavior and I have badly interfered with it in a bad way, so I came by thought that I might be welcome at the official forums and ask if anybody has dealt with the issue of installing libreadline5-dev under openSUSE in a polite to the system way.
$ zypper se libreadline*
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+--------------------------+---------------------------------------+-----------
| libreadline-java | Java Wrapper for the EditLine Library | package
| libreadline-java | Java Wrapper for the EditLine Library | srcpackage
| libreadline-java-32bit | Java Wrapper for the EditLine Library | package
| libreadline-java-javadoc | Javadoc for libreadline-java | package
| libreadline5 | The Readline Library | package
| libreadline5 | The Readline Library | srcpackage
| libreadline5-32bit | The Readline Library | package
i | libreadline6 | The Readline Library | package
| libreadline6-32bit | The Readline Library | package
So, it looks like the src package is available although I don’t know why it appears to be named the same as the regular.
Maybe someone an opine if there is a package labeling error.
But I dont’ see a development package available, either.
I take that back, apparently it’s there as an app package instead as a “lib”
$ zypper se readline5-devel
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+--------
| readline5-devel | Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development | package
| readline5-devel-32bit | Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Development | package
Thank you all for the fast responses! I appear to have had an issue with my repositories with missing metadata xml file. I fixed but still had no luck with libreadline5-devel, however I tried a command line installation and it worked. I am still wondering although why with zypper it installed the library but with Install/Remove Software it couldn’t find such a package to install. I guess it’s just a weird kind of graphical error.