Here’s what you need to do to get ipython running on maemo scratchbox (Diablo, though also applicable for Chinook with slight modifications):

Ensure that you have the following in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras diablo free non-free

Run ‘apt-get update’ and ‘apt-get upgrade’ (this is because the python2.5 shipped with Diablo comes without readline support), then install setuptools:

apt-get install python2.5-setuptools

Install ipython with easy_install:

python2.5 /usr/bin/easy_install ipython

HOWEVER, the maemo sdk’s have a buggy readline, so you should fix the cd completer if you are using a newer ipython than 0.8.4. In that case, you should add the following lines to your ipy_user_conf.py:

import ipy_completers

ipy_completers.greedy_cd_completer = True

And to always get the latest nightly snapshot of ipython, do:

wget http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/testing/ipython-dev-nightly.tgz

cd ipython-dev-nightly

python2.5 setup.py install

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