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Bug by libreadline.so.5

3 messages · acasseb@ufpa.br, Brian Ripley, Peter Dalgaard

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                  manual FWD to R-devel, since it's not a bug in R.  MM ]
Dear friend,

I need same help about "libreadline.so.5". My OS: Conectiva Linux 10 
(Brazilian distribution). The prompt show this messenger:

"/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R:error while loading shared libraries: 
/lib/libreadline.so.5: undefined symbol : BC"

Please Help! Thanks!





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On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 acasseb at ufpa.br wrote:

            
It's an OS-specific problem: try compiling R from sources on the actual 
machine you are using.  You are probably missing a compatible ncurses 
library (as discussed in the R-admin manual), and we've seen missing 
dependencies in (the closely related) Mandriva before.
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Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
I think that something similar got solved just by installing ncurses
on some other Linux distro, so that should probably be the first thing
to try.

Ideally this sort of thing should be handled via RPM dependencies, but
not all packagers are equally good at keeping track of them.