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I am having difficulty installing R-2.4.1 on Mandriva Linux 2007 Discovery. Thanks to the help of Doug Bates I got further along the path (Thanks Doug!!). I now cannot figure out which line of code needs modified in order for configure to complete. Please see below for the last several lines of output. checking whether the gfortran linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking whether makeinfo version is at least 4.7... yes checking for cos in -lm... yes checking for sin in -lm... yes checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes checking readline/history.h usability... yes checking readline/history.h presence... yes checking for readline/history.h... yes checking readline/readline.h usability... yes checking readline/readline.h presence... yes checking for readline/readline.h... yes checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no checking for main in -lncurses... no checking for main in -ltermcap... no checking for main in -ltermlib... no checking for rl_callback_read_char in -lreadline... no checking for history_truncate_file... no configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available ******************************************************************* Ross Bricklemyer Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences Washington State University 201 Johnson Hall Pullman, WA 99164-6420 Work: 509.335.3661 Cell/Home: 406.570.8576 Fax: 509.335.8674 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.