Public bug reported:
Socat is linked with libreadline.so.5 which is not installable.
libreadline5 has no installation candidate, on my machine it's installed
but I have no libreadline.so.5 file anywhere on my machine. I have every
Ubuntu repository enabled, including universe, multiverse, restric
Thanks for that Micah, it looks like my libreadline5 install was broken
and perhaps it was missing from the repos for a short period as I was
able to reinstall it just now.
I've included the output you requested below in case you're curious but
I believe this issue should now be closed, my mistake