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Recently I inquired about a libreadline.so.5 message received when attempting to install the rpm version of the programming language Agena. At the suggestion here recompilation would be in order, I messaged the developer asking details about that, and in reply he suggested just linking the newer version 6 library that Mageia uses to the Agena system. Long story short, not only does that not work, but now I have an error message on my system's reboot to the effect that shared library loading was aborted with a message libreadline.so.6 is too short (yes, its file size is 0), but now the Add/Remove software function in Control Center aborts abnormally with a similar message in its verbiage. An ls of the /lib directory has libreadline.so.6 in white letters blinking in a red rectangle followed by an @. I tried to use urpmi from the command line to see if I could download just a libreadline.so.6 package, but urpmi fails because of the libreadline problem.

Is there some way I can download appropriate code to extricate my system from this mess caused by a university class assignment to learn a new programming language in the second week before final examinations?

has libreadline.so.6 in white letters blinking in a red rectangle followed by an @.

That means a broken link.
Is other libreadline.so.* present in the same directory?

There are two other link files of 16 and 18 characters, but no longer libreadline.so files.

Try then to reinstall libreadline from console as root:

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urpmi libreadline6

if is already installed but somehow crippled:

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urpmi --replacepkgs libreadline6

Edit: Ah, sorry I forgot you can't do that either.

http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mageia/di ... 1.i586.rpm
download the above package and install it from console in the same directory where it resides:

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rpm -i libreadline6-6.2-1.mga1.i586.rpm

or

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rpm -i --force libreadline6-6.2-1.mga1.i586.rpm

Eventually if anything fails, extract the package and manually copy the files.

dubigrasu wrote:http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mageia/di ... 1.i586.rpm
download the above package and install it from console in the same directory where it resides:

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rpm -i libreadline6-6.2-1.mga1.i586.rpm

or

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rpm -i --force libreadline6-6.2-1.mga1.i586.rpm

Just a related sidenote, rpm can perfectly download itself, so

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rpm -ihv http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mageia/distrib/1/i586/media/core/release/libreadline6-6.2-1.mga1.i586.rpm

should do the trick

Ha!
Never crossed my mind to try that thanks, that's good to know.

RPM has inbuilt support for most download protocols since ages, be it ftp, http, maybe even rsync?