Cannot do `initialize' in Term::ReadLine::Gnu at /usr/bin/trizen

[alkaris2]

I can't use Trizen because of this error preventing it from working.

Cannot do `initialize' in Term::ReadLine::Gnu at /usr/bin/trizen line 724.

Term::ReadLine::Gnu is installed but according to Trizen it can't use it. I made sure perl is up to date I did the install with cpan install Term::ReadLine::Gnu but it still doesn't work at all. What even is this? why would it not work even when its been installed? I even installed the package for perl readline and it's all up to date, but still doesn't do anything for me.

[trizen]

I cannot reproduce this issue...

Try this command to see if it fixes the issue:

perl -Mlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl,/usr/share/perl5/core_perl /usr/bin/trizen trizen

[alkaris2]

seems if I try this, it also does not work.

[michaellass]

I had the same problem on 32bit Arch Linux, whereas trizen worked perfectly on the official 64bit Arch distribution. The solution was to rebuild the perl-term-readline-gnu package, so I guess this is not a problem with trizen itself.

If you are in the same situation (i.e., using Arch Linux 32), the following should fix it:

1. Download the PKGBUILD for perl-term-readline-gnu
2. Change pkgrel from 1 to 1.0 as otherwise the version from the Arch Linux 32 repositories will be considered newer
3. Run makepkg --ignorearch
4. Install the resulting package using pacman