Ctrl+L won't clear Python3.3 terminal

Question

I installed Python3.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 x86 on VirtualBox, from source:

./configure --prefix=/opt/python3.3
make && sudo make install

Answer 1

You need to install libreadline-dev for readline support to work.

Once installed, re-compile Python.

You may be missing other dependencies used by other extensions. You may want to install:

libncursesw5-dev
libssl-dev
libgdbm-dev
libsqlite3-dev
tk-dev

as well to take full advantage of Python's extension modules.