[R-sig-Debian] libreadline problem

[Douglas Bates]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Giovanni Petris <gpetris at uark.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Recently updated Ubuntu to 10.04, I have installed the r-base and
> r-base-dev packages from CRAN with
>
> sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> But now when I want to start R I get the following error:
>
> gpetris at definetti:~$ R
> /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R: symbol lookup
> error: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.6: undefined symbol: PC

That .so file is in /usr/local/lib and did not come from an Ubuntu package.

>
> Any clue??? Has anybody seen that before? I have tried to reinstall the
> readline libraries, both as a ubuntu package and from sources, but the
> error did not go away....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giovanni
>
>
>
>
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>
> Giovanni Petris  <GPetris at uark.edu>
> Associate Professor
> Department of Mathematical Sciences
> University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701
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