How to get Readline support in IRB using RVM on Ubuntu 11.10

Question

I have tried everything I can think of to get this to work, to no avail so here I am requesting suggestions on how to debug.

Firstly, runnning Ubuntu 11.10

I

Answer 1

Unfortunately none of these worked for me. I ended up using the Quick Fix from http://beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/

That solved my problem.