# What is the current rash status?

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-current-rash-status/4355>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** shell-scripting, rash\
**Created:** [August 26, 2026, 8:56am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-current-rash-status/4355 "2026-08-26T08:56:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![shhyou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@shhyou](https://racket.discourse.group/u/shhyou)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2026, 7:38am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/what-is-the-current-rash-status/4355/6 "2026-08-27T07:38:55Z")

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I wonder whether "remove" means `raco pkg uninstall readline-gpl`.

Searching for "readline" and "invalid memory reference" took me to this. Is libtermcap still in use? This looks like a stuck situation where building from Racket source is the only way to resolve the incompatibility:

> [@Racket crashes with "invalid memory reference"](https://racket.discourse.group/t/racket-crashes-with-invalid-memory-reference/2206/2):
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> I think this is a problem with our strategy for creating a Racket distribution that runs on a wide range of Linux versions. Part of that involves statically linking to libtermcap, but old versions of libtermcap are not really compatible with newer versions of Linux. Specifically, it looks like the statically linked libtermcap interferes with initialization in libedit or libreadline, while Racket's default expeditor manages to side-step incompatibility in its initialization. I'm not sure at what…

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