nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote: >Have you installed the headers of readline? Maybe >readline-devel package or something else? > That worked! I installed libreadline5-dev and it's dependency, libncurses5-dev. Ruby compiles happily now, and irb gives readline support. Thank you, -dB -- David Brady ruby-talk / shinybit.com I'm having a really surreal day... OR AM I?