%general-entities; ]> Readline Apply a patch. patch -Np1 -i ../readline-&readline-version;-fixes-1.patch Prepare Readline for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib Compile the package: make SHLIB_XLDFLAGS=-lncurses Install the package: make install Give Readline's dynamic libraries to a more appropriate permissions: chmod 755 /lib/lib{readline,history}.so* Now we move the static libraries to a more appropriate location: mv /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib Now we will remove the old, .so files in /lib and relink them into /usr/lib. rm /lib/lib{readline,history}.so ln -sf ../../lib/libreadline.so.5 /usr/lib/libreadline.so ln -sf ../../lib/libhistory.so.5 /usr/lib/libhistory.so See testing