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I can't seem to install zlib properly, I installed Python from source on Ubuntu10.4 '######## edit ##################### bobince and Luper helped. Make sure you install these packages and then recompile Python: sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev libreadline6-dev libdb4.8-dev libncurses5-dev '################################# After installation, I attempted to install setuptools.py $ sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available I then installed zlib: $ sudo aptitude install zlibc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: zlibc 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded. Need to get 74.6kB of archives. After unpacking 299kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe zlibc 0.9k-4.1 [74.6kB] Fetched 74.6kB in 0s (108kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package zlibc. (Reading database ... 19824 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking zlibc (from .../zlibc_0.9k-4.1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up zlibc (0.9k-4.1) ... Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Before recompiling Python: but setuptools still won't install: $ sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data

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