Can not use command line interpreter

Question

I have tried to execute simple php code in the php interpreter. When I executed the command php -a I getting the message

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Answer 1

There seems to be a compilation / linkage error between your PHP and libreadline. This is documented in PHP Bug #48759.

• Did you compile PHP by yourself? Did you play around with --configure and didn't do a proper make clean before your final build?
• Does php -m list readline as enabled feature? (Is PHP built with option --with-readline)
• What is you php version?
• What distribution do you use?
• Do you have the libreadline (the *-dev package) installed?