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Nick Bolton
Asked: 2010-07-06 12:59:17 +0800 CST

When installing setuptools on Debian Lenny, why do I get zlib error?

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I'm seeing this error when I run python2.6 setup.py build on Debian Lenny from the setuptools-0.6c11 source:

Compression requires the (missing) zlib module
python debian-lenny setuptools

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  1. Best Answer

    I think the problem is that python2.6 was not build with zlib. I ran the following commands and this fixed my problem (this assumes you have the Python 2.6 source):

    apt-get install zlib1g-dev
cd Python-2.6.5
./configure
make
make install

    ... there are also lots of other things that python will build with. The installer will not fail if they're missing, it'll just build without them.

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