[Rd] Bug by libreadline.so.5

[Peter Dalgaard]

Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> 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.

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.

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