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

I had the same issue with my Ubuntu 14.04 install trying to get some python libraries installed. iPython I believe requires readline which was failing for me until I ran the following commands.

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
sudo pip install readline