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?


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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