On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:34:23 -0700 Eric Dorsey <dors...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Tutor: > I've managed to install Python 2.6 on my Ubuntu VM from source, > however, it looks as though I missed something important along the > way. My 2.6 interpreter does not have readline support (example: I > cant hit up arrow to repeat the last command) Is there a way to add > this functionality now? > > Or alternative, if I just rebuild it, does anyone know the flag or > verbage to get readline support in? I think you need to recompile it again, this time make sure that "libreadline5-dev" package is installed. Hope that help. Ziyad. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
