fjanoos
August 29th, 2009, 06:46 PM
hi,
sometime ago while i was installing R on my system there was a power failure and the installation did not complete successfully. ever since then every time i try to run an apt-get install on any package i get the following error:
Setting up libreadline5-dev (5.2-3build1) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing libreadline5-dev (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up sshfs (1.9-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libreadline5-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
i tried uninstalling and re-installing R - to no avail. i have tried hunting down this libreadline5-dev library - but i'm not very conversant with linux/ubuntu and don't know where to begin or how to fix it.
this error is even preventing me from upgrading from 8.04 to 9.xx
any help will be appreciated.
thanks,
-fj
sometime ago while i was installing R on my system there was a power failure and the installation did not complete successfully. ever since then every time i try to run an apt-get install on any package i get the following error:
Setting up libreadline5-dev (5.2-3build1) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing libreadline5-dev (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up sshfs (1.9-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libreadline5-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
i tried uninstalling and re-installing R - to no avail. i have tried hunting down this libreadline5-dev library - but i'm not very conversant with linux/ubuntu and don't know where to begin or how to fix it.
this error is even preventing me from upgrading from 8.04 to 9.xx
any help will be appreciated.
thanks,
-fj