Hi, At Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:50:00 +0900, David Brady wrote in [ruby-talk:147622]: > I installed ruby 1.8.2 and irb as Kubuntu packages, but ran into > problems with threading. The solution was to grab ruby from CVS, so now > I'm running the stable snapshot of 1.9.0. 1.9.0 is not a "stable" version. You would mean the "latest" snapshot. > I suspect ruby rather than irb because removing the irb package and > reinstalling it has no effect. Does this sound likely? If so, how do I > enable readline support? ext/readline/extconf.rb apparently failed to detect readline library. Can't you show the mkmf.log file in that directory? -- Nobu Nakada