Question

I downloaded the source of Android, but when I used repo init according to the website, I got the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/bin/repo", line 91, in <module>
    import readline
ImportError: No module named readline

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and Python 2.7.2

Answer 1

AFAIK, the default Python environment in Ubuntu 10.04 is Python 2.6.5, so you must be using a self-compiled python.

You should be missing some readline header files when building your python 2.7.2, so you have two choices now:

1. Re-compile your python, with libreadline?-dev installed.
2. Install the standalone version of readline, using pip install readline or easy_install readline