WARNING: IPython History requires SQLite, your history will not be saved

Question

Hi I\'m using Ubuntu release 12.10 (quantal) 32-bit with Linux Kernel 3.5.0-21-generic. I\'m trying to get IPython\'s History to work. I\'ve set it up using pythonbrew and a vir

Answer 1

You should rebuild your python with sqlite support

sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.15/Python-2.7.15.tgz
tar -xvf Python-2.7.15.tgz
cd Python-2.7.15
./configure
make
sudo make install

Recreate your virtual environment and you should be good to go

rmvirtualenv venv
mkvirtualenv -p python2 venv
workon venv
pip install -r requirements.txt
# or
pip install ipython