Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
