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

[زياد بن عبدالعزيز البا]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:56 -0700
Eric Dorsey <dorseye at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did an aptitute install of  ibreadline5-dev and then
> did ./configure and make again, and still don't have any
> functionality to be able to hit up-arrow and get a command repeated
> while inside the interpreter. Any ideas?
> 
> 
I don't know what's wrong, Python should pickup "libreadline" and use
it automatically if it was installed.

Try passing "--with-readline" to the "configure" script.

If that doesn't help, then I'm sorry, I'm out of ideas.

Hope that help.
Ziyad.