[R] R installation failed on SUSE Linux -- libreadline.so.6 needed

[Detlef Steuer]

On my Suse Box I have

steuer at gaia:~> ll /usr/lib/libreadline.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 803532  5. Jul 13:46 /usr/lib/libreadline.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     23 16. Jul 09:59 /usr/lib/libreadline.so -> /lib/libreadline.so.6.1

So libraries are in /usr/lib, not /usr/local/lib

libreadline is provided by

steuer at gaia:~> rpm -q --whatprovides libreadline6
libreadline6-6.1-8.1.i586

What Suse version are we talking about?
Which repository?

Hope that helps already
Detlef



On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:38:41 -0700 (PDT)
noclue_ <tim.liu at netzero.net> wrote:

> 
> I think that I have successfully installed libreadline.so.6.
> But still got an error -- libreadline.so.6 needed   during R installation on
> SUSE Linux.
> 
> help is really appreciated!
> ===============================
> 
> # ls -lt /usr/local/lib
> total 4088
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  168858 Oct 18 07:15 libhistory.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 Oct 18 07:15 libhistory.so -> libhistory.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 Oct 18 07:15 libhistory.so.6 ->
> libhistory.so.6.0
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  110410 Oct 18 07:15 libhistory.so.6.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1149336 Oct 18 07:15 libreadline.a
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      16 Oct 18 07:15 libreadline.so ->
> libreadline.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 Oct 18 07:15 libreadline.so.6 ->
> libreadline.so.6
> .0
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  674459 Oct 18 07:15 libreadline.so.6.0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  166578 Oct 18 06:43 libhistory.old
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 Oct 18 06:43 libhistory.so.5 ->
> libhistory.so.5.2
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  109183 Oct 18 06:43 libhistory.so.5.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1111532 Oct 18 06:43 libreadline.old
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 Oct 18 06:43 libreadline.so.5 ->
> libreadline.so.5
> .2
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root  650223 Oct 18 06:43 libreadline.so.5.2
> 
> 
> # ls -lt /usr/local/lib64
> total 1328
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 674459 Oct 18 07:19 libreadline.so.6
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 674459 Oct 18 07:19 libreadline.so.6.0
> 
> # ldd /usr/local/lib/libreadline.so
>         linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff74957000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f295027f000)
>         /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f295082b000)
> 
> # zypper install R-base
> Retrieving repository 'R10.1-base' metadata [error]
> Repository 'R10.1-base' is invalid.
> [|] Repository type can't be determined.
> Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid
> rep
> ository.
> Warning: Disabling repository 'R10.1-base' because of the above error.
> Retrieving repository 'R12.2-base' metadata [error]
> Repository 'R12.2-base' is invalid.
> [|] Repository type can't be determined.
> Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid
> rep
> ository.
> Warning: Disabling repository 'R12.2-base' because of the above error.
> Loading repository data...
> Reading installed packages...
> Resolving package dependencies...
> 
> Problem: nothing provides libreadline.so.6 needed by
> R-patched-2.12.0-3.1.i586
>  Solution 1: do not ask to install a solvable providing R-base
>  Solution 2: break R-patched by ignoring some of its dependencies
> 
> Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/c] (c):
> 
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