[R-sig-Debian] libreadline problem

[Giovanni Petris]

Many thanks to Dirk, Doug, and Michael!
The problem is now solved.

Best,
Giovanni Petris 

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 11:56 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 at 11:36, Giovanni Petris 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
> | 
> | 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....
> 
> There must be some local issue on your system that makes it non-standard.
> There are literally hundreds of us running this R version and built every day
> from the same binaries.
> 
> The best clue is 
> 
>     error: /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so.6: undefined symbol: PC
> 
> which clearly indicates that you have a version of readline masquerading as
> version 6 ... which is then used to run R but fails for incompatibility.
> 
> That is, sorry to be blunt, your fault and issue.  Remove that library (with
> some care, you could first rename or move to a hidden directory) and then run
> 'sudo ldconfig' to update the shared library cache used by the system. Then
> try R.  Or, as an alternative to running R:
> 
> edd at max:~$ ldd /usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R
> 	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff24c72000)
> 	libR.so => /usr/lib/libR.so (0x00007f828a3fe000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f828a07b000)
> 	libblas.so.3gf => /usr/lib/libblas.so.3gf (0x00007f8289ddf000)
> 	libgfortran.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 (0x00007f8289af2000)
> 	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f828986f000)
> 	libreadline.so.6 => /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x00007f828962d000)
> 	libpcre.so.3 => /lib/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007f82893ff000)
> 	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f82891ee000)
> 	libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f8288fd6000)
> 	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8288dd2000)
> 	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f828a994000)
> 	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f8288bbb000)
> 	libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007f8288977000)
> edd at max:~$ 
> 
> As you can, nothing is pulled in from /usr/local and I run R against the
> libraries provided by the package management system as it was meant to be
> used.
> 
> You should get there too.
> 
> Hth, Dirk
>