Public bug reported: Jython claims to depend on libreadline-java version 60 or higher. One my AMD-64 Gutsy installation, libreadline-java version 80 was installed.
When I try to run anything with jython, even 'print "Hello world"' I get this error indicating that version 49 or libreadline-java was needed: [532] Python> ./simple.py Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/gnu/readline/ReadlineLibrary (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302) at org.python.util.ReadlineConsole.<init>(ReadlineConsole.java:23) at org.python.util.ReadlineConsole.<init>(ReadlineConsole.java:13) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:274) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:308) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:261) at org.python.util.jython.main(jython.java:92) Jython is completely useless to me now. ** Affects: jython (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Wrong version of libreadline-java in dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs