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, restricted and propsed updates. ## Program Output # Looking for libreadline.so.5 oliver@afidev05:~$ sudo find / -type f -name 'libreadline.so.5' oliver@afidev05:~$ # Aptitude Info: libreadline5 oliver@afidev05:~$ aptitude show libreadline5 Package: libreadline5 State: installed Automatically installed: no Multi-Arch: same Version: 5.2-11 Priority: optional Section: libs Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 354 k Depends: readline-common, libc6 (>= 2.11), libtinfo5 PreDepends: multiarch-support Breaks: libreadline5 (!= 5.2-11) Replaces: libreadline5 (< 5.2-11) Description: GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries The GNU readline library aids in the consistency of user interface across discrete programs that need to provide a command line interface. The GNU history library provides a consistent user interface for recalling lines of previously typed input. #Aptitude Info: socat oliver@afidev05:~$ aptitude show socat Package: socat State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.7.1.3-1.2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 907 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libreadline5 (>= 5.2), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~) Conflicts: socat Description: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes, devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw, UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different modes for interprocess communication and many more options. It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon), as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets, as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts inside network connections. Socat supports sctp as of 1.7.0. Homepage: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ ** Affects: socat (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - Socat depends on libreadline5 which is no longer available. + Socat depends on libreadline5 and fails to link properly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to socat in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1057573 Title: Socat depends on libreadline5 and fails to link properly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/socat/+bug/1057573/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs