[R-sig-Debian] libreadline problem

[Michael Rutter]

On 08/18/2010 12:52 PM, Douglas Bates wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  Not sure where this came from, but make sure that libreadline 
6.1-1 is installed via apt or synaptic.  You may also have other 
versions of libreadline.so or libreadline.so.6 linked to this somewhere 
else on the system, so make sure nothing links to this file.

Michael



>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Giovanni Petris<GPetris at uark.edu>
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Mathematical Sciences
>> University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701
>> Ph: (479) 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax)
>> http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/
>>
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