Packages for RedHat 4.2, Debian 1.3

[Douglas Bates]

Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> "Gregory R. Warnes" <warnes@biostat.washington.edu> writes:
> 
> > RedHat 5.0 comes with libreadline.so.3.  R-base depends on
> > libreadline.so.2.  There seem to be no other unresolved dependencies, so
> > I'm looking to find a copy of libreadlin.so.2...
> 
> It *should* work if you make a symlink from libreadline.so.2.1 to
> libreadline.so.3 and rerun ldconfig.

It may work but it may not.  Gregory is referring to installing the
r-base_0.61.1-2_i386.rpm file from the bin/i386-linux/RedHat-4.2/
directory, not the one from the RedHat-5.0 directory.  The one he is
trying to install was linked against libreadline.so.2.0 not
libreadline.so.2.1.

According to some discussions that we saw a while back, Debian's
libreadline.so.2.1 is supposedly upwardly compatible with
libreadline.so.2.0.  The libreadline.so.3.0 in RedHat 5.0 is the same
as Debian's libreadline.so.2.1 but the two maintainers can't agree on
a number.  (I think that's the way it works.  It got a bit confusing
for a while there.)

Anyway, if you do get it to install I would definitely try it out with
 R -noreadline
initially.
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