Terminal Command Line Editing

[Brian McKee]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Alex Katebi <alex.katebi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I recently created a KVM virtual machine which runs the ubuntu-server. The
> boot or console terminal does not have any command line editing features
> like up/down arrows for command history and no ctl-end or ctl-a etc. What
> package gives a terminal these features? Is it ncurses and readline?

I don't think it's a specific package as much as it is your terminal
settings.  When you use it, what does "echo $TERM" return?

Brian