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Make irb Do Tab Completion

July 5th, 2006

I was missing readline. The sadness. Thanks to these guys, i fixed it. Here’s how to do it on FC5:


sudo yum install ncurses-devel readline-devel
cd ruby-1.8.4/ext/readline
ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install


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  1. Hank
    July 5th, 2006 at 17:03 | #1
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    Also works on Ubuntu Dapper with these small modifications:

    <typo:code>
    sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libreadline5-dev
    </typo:code>

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