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WillyCornelissen's avatar

Tinker not worklng

I am using Laravel on two Ubuntu distros, and getting the same error when I try to call tinker:

Full REPL not supported. Falling back to simple shell.

Is it a matter of dependecies? Do I have to install something before?

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chrisgeary92's avatar

I believe it's because of this (taken from Laravel docs):

The php artisan tinker command now utilizes the Boris REPL if your system supports it. The readline and pcntl PHP extensions must be installed to use this feature. If you do not have these extensions, the shell from 4.0 will be used.

Boris: https://github.com/d11wtq/boris

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