How to solve No termcap nor curses library found

在Linux平台下，想在Oracle数据库的SQL*PLUS的命令行提示符下，利用键盘上的上下箭头，调出历史执行的SQL命令，可以考虑采用rlwrap这一开源工具。

现，简单记录一下安装过程（Red Hat Enterprise Linux as 5.4环境）。以前在4版本的操作系统上安装时很顺利，就不再记录。

①解压并安装rlwrap工具:

[root@server1 ~]# tar -zxvf rlwrap-0.30.tar.gz

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[root@server1 ~]# cd rlwrap-0.30 && ll

total 464

-rw-rw-r-- 1 hekan hekan  32266 Jan  8  2008 aclocal.m4

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan    638 Aug 15  2006 AUTHORS

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan   4740 Nov 10  2007 BUGS

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan    105 Aug 10  2003 ChangeLog

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 completions

-rw-rw-r-- 1 hekan hekan   5489 Jan  8  2008 config.h.in

-rwxr-xr-x 1 hekan hekan 217282 Jan  8  2008 configure

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan   9860 Jan  8  2008 configure.ac

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan  17992 Aug  8  2006 COPYING

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 distribution

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 doc

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan   1927 Nov 10  2007 INSTALL

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan    436 Nov 10  2007 Makefile.am

-rw-rw-r-- 1 hekan hekan  22987 Jan  8  2008 Makefile.in

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan  11187 Jan  3  2008 NEWS

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan   2745 Nov 10  2007 README

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 src

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 test

-rw-r--r-- 1 hekan hekan    480 Nov 10  2007 TODO

drwxrwxrwx 2 hekan hekan   4096 Jan  8  2008 tools

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]# ./configure

......

checking for tgetent... no

checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no

checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no

checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no

configure: WARNING: No termcap nor curses library found

checking for readline in -lreadline... no

configure: error:

You need the GNU readline library(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/readline/ ) to build

this program!

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]#

报错！提示需要安装readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm包。
② 安装readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm 包：

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm

warning: readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186

error: Failed dependencies:

libtermcap-devel is needed by readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386

[root@server1 ~]#

又报错提示缺失libtermcap-devel包！

继续安装：

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.i386.rpm

warning: libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

1:libtermcap-devel       ########################################### [100%]

[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm

warning: readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]

1:readline-devel         ########################################### [100%]

[root@server1 ~]# cd rlwrap-0.30

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]# ./configure

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p

checking for gawk... gawk

checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes

............

............

configure: creating ./config.status

config.status: creating Makefile

config.status: creating doc/Makefile

config.status: creating src/Makefile

config.status: creating doc/rlwrap.man

config.status: creating distribution/rlwrap.spec

config.status: creating config.h

config.status: executing depfiles commands

Now do:

make (or gmake)  to build rlwrap

make check       for instructions how to test it

make install     to install it

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]#

③ 根据执行执行，make,make install:

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]# make

make  all-recursive

......

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]# make install

Making install in doc

......

make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/rlwrap-0.30'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/rlwrap-0.30'

[root@server1 rlwrap-0.30]#

④ 修改oracle 用户的配置文件，

[oracle@server1 ~]$ pwd

/home/oracle

[oracle@server1 ~]$ vi .bash_profile

在其中，添加类似配置信息：

alias sqlplus='rlwrap sqlplus /nolog'

⑤至此，oracle在SHELL提示符下，只需要执行sqlplus就可以进入SQL*PLUS的命令行提示符，并且可以利用键盘的上下箭头调出之前执行过的历史命令。

这是在RHEL 5.4版本的操作系统上安装时的简单记录，而之前没遇到过类似的问题，故简单记录之。

即先安装libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-46.1.i386.rpm

然后安装 readline-devel-5.1-1.1.i386.rpm

最后安装rlwrap工具包。