[yt-users] readline recognition issue

[Matthew Turk]

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 <taskere at mcmaster.ca> 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?
>
>
>
> Casey W. Stark wrote:
>>
>> 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 <taskere at mcmaster.ca
>> <mailto:taskere at 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
>>        <taskere at mcmaster.ca <mailto:taskere at mcmaster.ca>
>>        <mailto:taskere at mcmaster.ca <mailto:taskere at 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 at 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?
>>
>>           Elizabeth
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