[Rd] Bug by libreadline.so.5

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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

> 		 [was sent to R-bugs and caught in "R-bugs-spam";
>                  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"

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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