[Tutor] Add readline capabilities to a Python build 2.6 on Ubuntu

[Lie Ryan]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:34:23 -0700, Eric Dorsey 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?

WORKSFORME
I have Ubuntu and python2.6 and the up arrow history works fine.