%general-entities; ]> Readline The following patch fixes various issues including a problem where Readline sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wrap to the next line. patch -Np1 -i ../readline-&readline-version;-fixes-1.patch Prepare Readline for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses Install the package: make install Give Readline's dynamic libraries to a more appropriate permissions: chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&readline-version; And move them to a more appropriate location: mv /usr/lib/lib{readline,history}.so.5* /lib Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are now pointing to non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks: ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so Installed libraries Not checked