David Brady wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.
>

Stable snapshot currently means 1.8 ... Snapshot is 1.9

I take it you're on 1.9 so you probably have readline.so in
  lib/ruby/1.8/ix86-xxxxxxxx
.... but not in
  lib/ruby/1.9/ix86-xxxxxxxx

> irb(main):001:0> require 'irb/completion'
> LoadError: no such file to load -- readline
>
> Maybe IRB bug!!

Nooo, never.

>
> 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?
>

Install it for 1.9 ?
You could try copying to the 1.9 dir if you enjoy taking risks ;-)


daz