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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:33:19PM -0600, Patrick Wallinger <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm brand new to python and was trying to install the newest version > (3.6.0) on my ubuntu 16.04.1 but couldn't get it to build error free. I > tried searching the bugs but didn't see a match for what I am seeing. > > Thanks for any help, > Patrick > > Here is the report: > patrick@ubuntu-MacBook:~/Programs/Python-3.6.0$ ./python -m test -v > test_venv [skip] > zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available Seems yoy don't have zlib or haven't had zlib headers when you compiled python. Install zlib and zlib-dev packages and recompile python. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ [email protected] Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com