topic Hi Ahmed, in Intel® Distribution for Python*

conda intelpython readline mislinked

Gilbert_F_ — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:08:13 GMT

Very excited about the conda integration and it's mostly working well, but ipython seems to have been compiled against a different version of the libreadline library -- it's looking for libreadline.so.5 but conda is pulling down libreadline.so.6

A symlink works as a temporary fix

ln -s libreadline.so.6 libreadline.so.5

Gilbert, how did you find out

ahmed_f_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:35:37 GMT

Gilbert, how did you find out that it was looking for the wrong libreadline—did it tell you? I installed just the Intel Python Beta (not conda) on Linux to my user directory (not global install), and it has no readline support (arrow keys insert escape values) and IPython warns:

WARNING: Readline services not available or not loaded.
WARNING: The auto-indent feature requires the readline library

Hi Ahmed,

Gilbert_F_ — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:02:36 GMT

Hi Ahmed,

If you do an

import readline

you should get a more useful traceback that should tell you what version of `libreadline` it expects to find. Then create a symlink as I mentioned above. The readline library should be in the /lib/ subdirectory of your python install

Please see this post for an

Robert_C_Intel — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:58:56 GMT

Please see this post for an update. Gilbert's workaround will not work with recent versions of intel python.