[Bug 1805040] Re: Apparently "Readline6" is not in Ubuntu 18.4.1 LTS but I need it

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Thanks for reporting.

Looks like readline6 was removed intentionally, see
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/readline6/+publishinghistory or
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877240 for details.

Ideally the applications should be ported to readline7, which is
currently supported and available in Ubuntu 18.04. If that isn't
possible, you may be able to manually install the older readline6
packages from an older Ubuntu release. Beware that this might conflict
with the newer readline version and may cause problems for other
packages which now expect readline7.

(I wasn't sure whether this should be converted to a question, so I left
it as a bug report)

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #877240
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877240

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Title:
  Apparently "Readline6" is not in Ubuntu 18.4.1 LTS but I need it

Status in readline6 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I use applications that require Readline6.  But Ubuntu 18.4.1 does not
  seem to have it - how can Iget it?

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