libreadline.so.5 not found

Björn König bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Aug 6 16:12:54 GMT 2005


Larry wrote:
> I just upgraded to 4.11-STABLE and upgraded a lot of ports after that. 
> Now I get the following message sometimes:
> 
> Shared object "libreadline.so.5" not found, required by "bash".

How did you build bash? The packages of 4.11-RELEASE and 4-STABLE don't 
require libreadline. Show the output of the following commands

    ls -l /lib/libread*

    file `which bash`

    ldd `which bash`


Consider reinstallation of bash.

Regards Björn


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