lua.c:78:31: fatal error:

[Francis Marsh <frank.marsh@...>]

Hello. I am running on Ubuntu and just tried to compile Lua but received the following error message:

lua.c:78:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory

What is this <readline> directory and how can I fix this.

Thank you.

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