Ipython no readline available and pip install readline error

Question

I installed ipython but it doesn\'t have the readline option. I first downloaded gnu readline and compiled and installed. DIdn\'t know whether it was a proper solution but w

Answer 1

You have a linker error: library ncurses is not installed, or it is installed and the linker is searching for the wrong object file.

What platform/operating system are you using?

If you're running Linux/Unix, try:

locate libncurses

to see if the library is installed. If there are no libncurses*.{o,so,so.[0-9].[0-9]} files on your system, just install the library, and the readline. If there are some, then check which one is searched for by the readline compilation process, it could be that you just have to make a symbolic link, naming the library file properly.