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/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/completion.rb:10:in `require’:
no such file to load – readline (LoadError)

cd ext/readline
ruby extconf.rb
make
sudo make install

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1. Matt said // Apr 14, 2006 at 04:20 AM
   

   Niether does ubuntu (well that was pretty obvious if kububtu didnt have them) but thanks for this, i was so confused..

2. mutejute said // Apr 14, 2006 at 05:40 AM
   

   thanks for your blog on this. im using ubuntu. i followed your instructions. now my irb has tab completion! thanks a rubillion! :)

3. Pascal said // Apr 14, 2006 at 08:03 AM
   

   Thank you for the kind words. I'm thrilled you found this useful!

4. Pete said // May 04, 2006 at 11:37 AM
   

   exactly how does one go about "recompiling the readline extension"?

5. Pascal said // May 04, 2006 at 03:21 PM
   

   Pete, assuming you've compiled ruby from source, or you have the source available, you would go in the ext/readline directory of your ruby source. From there, typying ruby extconf.rb make clean sudo make install should do it. If you have not installed ruby from source, you might be able to get away from getting the source and compiling readline by itself. In my case, the available version of ruby via apt-get was older, so I went for ruby 1.8.4 but readline didn't build when I first went through the install because of the missing dependencies.

6. The allnighter said // Jul 03, 2006 at 11:46 PM
   

   thank you very much. it fixed my problem on my ubuntu. Merci beaucoup :)

7. Pascal said // Jul 04, 2006 at 02:23 AM
   

   Glad you found this helpful!

8. Andrew Arnott said // Aug 16, 2006 at 12:24 AM
   

   Thanks much!

9. tayfun said // Jan 05, 2007 at 03:16 PM
   

   thanks for the tips :)

10. blaupunkt said // Apr 03, 2007 at 11:22 AM
    

    Thank you! I built ruby 1.8.6 from the source and had this problem.