Hi az,
the ubuntu packages that i checked (for ubuntu releases 16.x, 18.x,
19.x)
It would be handy to know Norm's Ubuntu's version: `lsb_release -a'.
were all correct(but see below) in that they didn't link libreadline
and didn't depend on that package either.
second hunch: your system has a mix of locally built nmh binaries and
some stuff from ubuntu. your locally built stuff was built against
libreadline
I think this second hunch is most likely, with bits of an old nmh
kicking around and found by $PATH, perhaps even from an earlier Ubuntu
that had libreadline6 rather than a later version. So Norm should check
which comp(1) is being run when he gets the `libreadline.so.6: cannot
open' error, e.g. `type comp'.
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Cheers, Ralph.