[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what am i supposed to do to install the module GNU readline correctly > then?
> by the way,my linux is Mandriva 10 Use the package manager of your distribution to install the readline development package -- after some struggle with Mandriva's website I came to suppose that it's libreadline5-devel for you: urpmi libreadline5-devel.rpm After you have successfully installed that package unpack the python archive into a fresh directory and do the configure/make/install dance. No manual changes should be necessary. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list