Sure thing! This is a common issue, and easily missed. Matt and I are discussing making it part of yt install now. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Elizabeth Tasker wrote:

And that's fixed it -- thanks!

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Yes, I have this issue every time I create a new yt install.

Once you "activate" the yt environment by setting the right env vars, run `pip install readline`. Basically the python readline package isn't installed by default for the yt python environment. Should be fine after that.

Happy hacking, Casey

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Hi

I've installed yt on a new linux system and iyt is unable to find readline. When I start it says:

[taskere@purr ~]$ ~/yt/bin/iyt WARNING: Readline services not available on this platform.

But readline is on this machine and works fine from the normal bash prompt. Any ideas?

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Hi Elizabeth, Great idea! We're going to roll out a new build of the docs soon, and it'd be great if you could add this. Here's how you can fork the documentation, and when you've added it, just issue a pull request. https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt-doc/fork Thanks, Matt On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Elizabeth Tasker wrote:

If that's difficult for any reason, how about we add a "FAQ" to the "Asking for help" section of the yt webpages? I think I've also hit this issue before, although I don't think I had readline installed at all, which is why I assumed it was all different.

Might be helpful and save people like me repeating the question because they only hit it every year or so?

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Sure thing! This is a common issue, and easily missed. Matt and I are discussing making it part of yt install now.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Elizabeth Tasker mailto:taskere@mcmaster.ca> wrote:

   And that's fixed it -- thanks!

   Casey W. Stark wrote:

       Yes, I have this issue every time I create a new yt install.

       Once you "activate" the yt environment by setting the right        env vars, run `pip install readline`. Basically the python        readline package isn't installed by default for the yt python        environment. Should be fine after that.

       Happy hacking,        Casey

       On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Elizabeth Tasker        mailto:taskere@mcmaster.ca        mailto:taskere@mcmaster.ca>> wrote:

          Hi

          I've installed yt on a new linux system and iyt is unable        to find           readline. When I start it says:

          [taskere@purr ~]$ ~/yt/bin/iyt           WARNING: Readline services not available on this platform.

          But readline is on this machine and works fine from the normal           bash prompt. Any ideas?

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