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: > | > | gpet...@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: > > e...@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) > e...@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 > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
