Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.2.dylib

Question

I just installed posgresql with homebrew and when I go on to type the command

psql

I get the following error:

dyld: Library         


        

Answer 1

this worked for me

ln -s /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.7.0.dylib /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.6.dylib

Answer 2

For some unknown reason, when this error popped up for the next version of Readline, my RVM seemed unable to locate the right one no matter how I symlinked it, throwing:

Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/readline/lib/libreadline.7.dylib (LoadError)

I ended up adding the gem rb-readline to my Gemfile and doing another bundle install and it started working.

I... just don't know.

Answer 3

In my case the correct answer did not fix the problem.

The problem started after running brew doctor and adding export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" to my ~/.zshrc file.

Removing

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" 

from ~/.zshrc got it solved.

Answer 4

The answer above didn't work for me so I wanted to post what did eventually work. Based on a thread I found here, I had to uninstall readline and the install it again but from source.

brew uninstall readline
brew install --build-from-source readline

After that the psql error went away.