Changes between Version 25 and Version 44 of Ticket #14405


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04/04/13 18:10:16 (8 years ago)
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vbraun
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  • Ticket #14405

    • Property Authors changed from to Volker Braun
    • Property Summary changed from IPython readline broken if ncurses-devel is not installed to Replace termcap with ncurses

  • Ticket #14405 – Description

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    1 The readline in IPython is broken. Installing the ncurses headers from the distribution (yum install ncurses-devel) fixes this.
     1The readline in IPython is broken if ncurses-devel is not installed in various modern Linux distributions. Installing the ncurses headers from the distribution (yum install ncurses-devel on Fedora) fixes this.
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    33Example video:  http://youtu.be/dxp1SIXbIyY
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     5The problem seems to be that the ancient libtermcap (no new releases since March 2002) is not enough anymore. I suggest to replace the termcap spkg with ncurses. Sage-5.9.beta3 builds fine. The only downside is that it takes ~2mb instead of ~300k, but on the upside the terminal is no longer broken.