How to install Perl with readline support?

From	Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to install Perl with readline support?
Date	2016-03-12 18:00 +0100
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Hi everyone,

I have been searching for the answer to the subject line's question
for the last two hours.

None of the answers I've found work.  (I.e. the `perl -de 1` REPL
remains without readline support.)

I have already `apt-get install`-ed

    libreadline-dev
    libterm-readline-gnu-perl
    libterm-readline-perl-perl

(...along with their dependencies, of course).  I also ran `apt-get
install --reinstall perl`, and `dpkg-reconfigure`'d everything in
sight.  All of this got me nothing.

I'm puzzled by how difficult this problem has turned out to be.
Usually, `apt-cache search ...` followed by `apt-get install` takes
care of stuff like this.  In the harder cases, the first hit from a
Google search has the answer.  What makes this one so difficult?  Am I
missing something?

TIA!

kj

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How to install Perl with readline support? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 18:00 +0100
  Re: How to install Perl with readline support? "John L. Cunningham" <djohngo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 18:10 +0100
    Re: How to install Perl with readline support? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-12 18:50 +0100
  Re: How to install Perl with readline support? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-12 18:40 +0100
    Re: How to install Perl with readline support? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-12 19:50 +0100
      Re: How to install Perl with readline support? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-12 20:00 +0100

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