From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-11T21:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: roll back to last command in irb

2010/1/11 Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Marvin Gülker <sutniuq@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Did you compile Ruby yourself? If so, install one of the packages
>> libreadline5-dev or libreadline6-dev and then compile again.
>
> Yes coz my ubuntu doesn't have a ruby pre-installed, so I got the
> source from ruby-lang.org and installed it by hand.
> I have resolved the problem following your suggestion. Thanks.

You are aware that there is a packaged Ruby 1.9 available, are you?

http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/ruby1.9

Kind regards

robert

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